After qualifying from the University of Melbourne in 1933, Harrie Drury came to England to specialise in surgery. He returned to practice in Ballarat, Victoria where he died on October 18 1999 a few days after suffering a stroke, survived by his son, Henry.

Arthur Smith was born in 1914 and qualified from Manchester University in 1936. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1942 to 1947 and during his subsequent career he was a temporary ship's surgeon on no fewer than eleven occasions. He was consultant surgeon at Maelor Hospital, Wrexham, fro

Clarence Reginald Rapp received his medical education at the University of Toronto, qualifying in 1931. After house appointments at Toronto General Hospital and the Children's Hospital he came to Britain during the second world war and was a demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge University, gaining h

Jenkin ('Dill') Jones was born on 10 November 1914 in New Quay, Cardiganshire, the only child of David Jones, a captain in the Merchant Navy, and Mary Priscilla Rees. From New Quay Council School he went to the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and then to Durham University Medical School w

Iven Alastair Page was born at South Grafton, New South Wales, in 1914, being the third son of Sir Earle Page. He was educated at the Fort Street Boys' High School and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and then proceeded to the University of Sydney where he graduated in medicine in 1937.

Margaret Dix was born in 1902, the daughter of a Shropshire rector. She was educated at Sherborne and the Royal Free School of Medicine, where she qualified in 1937. She was appointed house surgeon to Douglas McLaggan and seemed set for a distinguished future in the profession. She was an outstandin

Osler Dickinson, the first of nine children of a Canadian farmer, was born at Hope, Ontario, on 29 September, 1908. There are no physicians recorded in the previous family history so the parents' choice of first name for their oldest child was probably not in hopeful anticipation of his eventual pro

Robert Bewick was born in Glasgow on 19 July 1907, the second son of James Dicker Bewick, a business executive and Elizabeth Jane Sloan, daughter of an Exciseman. He was educated at Alexandra Parade School 1912-18, Whitehall Secondary School 1918-24 and Glasgow University Medical School where he won

Francis Masina was born in Bombay on 1 February 1909, the son of Hormasji Manekji Masina, FRCS, a famous surgeon in India and the first Parsee to obtain the English FRCS. Francis was the second of four children, all of whom graduated from Cambridge University and obtained English medical qualific

Angus Duncan McLachlan was born on 14 October, 1908 at St Thomas, Ontario, the son of Archibald Fulton McLachlin and Annie Mae (née McLarty). He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1932 where he was a distinguished scholar and superb athlete. He won a Rhodes scholarship which he took

Eric Farquharson was born on 13 December 1905, the only son of William Anderson Farquharson, SSC, and Agnes Ness Cowie. A paternal great-grandfather, grandfather and two uncles were medically qualified. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh. Postgraduate studies follow

James Noël Chalmers Barclay Wilson, known as ‘Ginger’, was an orthopaedic surgeon. He was born on Christmas Day 1919 in Coventry, the son of Alexander Wilson, a schoolmaster, and Isobel Barbara née Fairweather, many of whose relatives were general practitioners. His parents later moved to Kenilworth