He was educated at University College Hospital and qualified during the first world war. He served as a temporary Captain in the RAMC and won the MC. After the war he held appointments at University College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and then went into practice

Born on 18 November 1887, son of a well know solicitor at Brighton and grandson of the headmaster of Brighton College, he was educated at Brighton College, Christ's College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualification he was house surgeon to Sir Anthony Bowlby at St Bartholomew's an

Born on 4 July 1890 at West Hartlepool, Durham, where his father Thomas George Ainsley (MRCS 1877, MD Durham) was in practice. His mother's maiden name was Hill. He was educated at Malvern College, at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1

Born on 6 June 1890 at Cardiff, the son of Charles William Marshall and Mary Jennings, he was educated at Cardiff High School and studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital where he gained a University Scholarship in 1909. He graduated in 1912 with honours in medicine, pathology and forensic medi

Born on 3 August 1890 one of the four children of John Martin McCurrich, chief engineer of the Bristol and Avonmouth Dock, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Vienna. Qualifying in 1915, he joined the Army as a combatant in the Middlesex Regiment but was later

Born on 1 May 1893, the son of an Instructor Captain in the Royal Navy and his French wife, he was born at Brest and spent his infancy in Japan, with the result that he could speak Japanese before he could speak English. Educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and the Middlesex Hospital, he qualified

Born at Oxford, 9 June 1891, eldest son of Richard Henry Anglin Whitelocke, FRCS, senior surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and his wife Barbara Henry, eldest daughter of G L Reid, civil engineer, of Brighton. Hugh Whitelocke's third name was taken from his grandfather's home, Bulstrode Park, Westm