Gilbert Charrington Wellish was born in Sydney, Australia, on 1 January 1893, the youngest of four children. No details of his parents are available but it is known that several members of the family practised surgery and one nephew was a pathologist. After graduating from Sydney University in 1916

Roland Arthur Hertslet Fulton was the son of a doctor, and was educated at Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago Medical School where he graduated in 1914. In his final year as a medical student he won a travelling scholarship and came to England in 1914. On the outbreak of war he join

Alice Bloomfield was born in India on 13 October 1895 where her father was a merchant. She and her sister were brought back to Scotland as children by their mother after their father was murdered by terrorists. Alice decided to study medicine and qualified at Edinburgh University in 1919 with first

John Grieve Whitaker was born in 1895, the son of a doctor who qualified in Belfast, and his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Grieve, was of Scottish descent. His father died when John was eight years old, and the family then moved to Canterbury, a suburb of Melbourne, where he was educated a

Born in Adelaide on February 8 1896, the son of a schoolmaster, Leonard Lindon lost his father when he was only one year old. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School where his uncle was headmaster and then proceeded to St Peter's College, starting his medical course at the University of Adelaide i

Arthur Dickson 'Dicky' Wright was born in Dublin on 5 May 1897, the third child of an Irish doctor who moved to Glasgow and then to London. His father, Edward Wright, was known as 'the hero doctor of Paddington'. He went to school at Hillhead High in Glasgow and then Latymer Upper at Hammersmith bef

Denis John Wolko Browne was born in Australia on 28 April 1892, and was educated at the King's School, Paramatta, and the University of Sydney, graduating MB in 1914. He came to England with the Anzacs and served throughout the first world war, including Gallipoli. After a period in Liverpool he mov