Tom O'Neill was a general surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He was born on 22 May 1912 near Newmarket, County Cork, and attended Presentation College, Cork, and then University College, Cork, where he studied medicine. He qualified in 1935. After house posts, he went to Engl

Guthrie Clothier was chief medical officer to the British Petroleum Company (BP). He received his medical education at King’s College Hospital. He then completed junior posts at St Charles Hospital and was a senior registrar at St Stephen’s Hospital. During the Second World War, he served as a major

Leon Henry was born in Wallasey, Liverpool, on 30 October 1911. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute, where he was a distinguished classical scholar and athlete. He won an exhibition to Cambridge, but for family reasons he went to Liverpool, where he won several medals and prizes and graduated

Eliasz Zwiefach (Elek or Alek to his friends) was born in 1910 and after gaining the diploma in medicine in 1936 proceeded to the degree of MD two years later. He had started to practise otorhinolaryngology before the war, but shortly after its outbreak was taken prisoner by the Russian Army and spe

Born in Forbes on 11 August 1907, Norman Richard Wyndham lost his mother when only a year old. A sick child, he was reared by his aunt who was later his stepmother. A serious and studious boy he won an exhibition in medicine to the University of Sydney and with unswerving devotion to his profession

John Foster, the eldest son of John Robert Foster, an ophthalmic surgeon, and of Emily Jane (née Elliot) was born on 31 October 1903 in West Hartlepool. He was educated at Aysgarth School, Uppingham School and Caius College, Cambridge, before entering the London Hospital Medical School where he won

Doris Barbara Wallace (née Brown) was the daughter of Mr David G Brown, a draper in Harrogate. She went to school in Harrogate and proceeded to the University of Leeds where she qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and also graduated MB ChB in 1932. In her preliminary science course she obtained the

Frederick Ronald Edwards was born in Chester on 14 April 1910. He graduated with honours at the University of Liverpool in 1932, won the Samuels Memorial Scholarship in surgery, obtained the FRCS in 1934, the ChM in 1935 and the MD in 1938. His surgical training was in Wigan and Liverpool and he was

Robert Lord Holt was born near Oldham on 18 May 1903 and educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, and Manchester University, where he qualified with many distinctions. He held numerous resident appointments in Manchester and obtained his Fellowship in 1928. In 1931 he was Dickson Travelling Schol

Andrew Killey Monro was the son of James Donald Monro MD, of London, and Beatrice, née Killey. His grandfather was also a medical doctor. He was born on 27 August 1907 in London and was educated at Highgate Junior School, Epsom College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He trained at the London Hospit

Noel Kirkman was born in Boothroydon, near Blackpool, on 11 March 1911, the son of William Harold Kirkman, the owner of a small wrought iron works, and Lavinia, née Fereday, one of whose ancestors was Samuel Day Fereday, a general surgeon in Dudley, Worcestershire (1800-1874). He was educated at Wes

John Graham Pyper, the eldest of three sons of John Pyper MA, a schoolmaster, and of Bessie Pyper (née Patton), was born at Bangor, County Down, on 26 June 1912. His second brother became a consultant physician and the youngest an orthopaedic surgeon. After education at Bangor Grammar School, where