Arthur Naylor was born in Hoyland, near Barnsley, on 28 September 1912, the son of Albert Naylor, a colliery underground manager, and Louisa Armitage, the daughter of a miner. He was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and did his medical education at Sheffield, where he obtained first class honours

George Neville Taylor was born at Bangor, County Down, on 6 September 1910 the son of George Edward Taylor, an insurance broker and after early education he qualified from Dublin in 1934. He carried out house appointments in Dublin before coming to England where he was surgical registrar at King Geo

Ronald Ivor Thomas Lloyd was born on 25 May 1907 and educated at Bradford Grammar School, after which he joined his father as an optician, qualifying FBOA with honours. Later his father encouraged him to proceed to medical qualifications and he entered Leeds University Medical School in 1936, contin

Margaret Dorothy Snelling was a consultant radiotherapist at Middlesex Hospital and the first female President of the European Association of Radiology. She was born on 20 September 1914, and educated at Wimbledon High School for Girls. She went on to study at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medic

Richard Derek Richards was born on 26 February 1917 and was educated at Canton High School, Cardiff, and the Welsh National School of Medicine. He had a brilliant student career, winning all the available prizes, and graduating MB BCh with honours in 1942, having taken a BSc also during the course o

Robert Wellesley-Cole was born in Kossoh, Freetown, Sierra Leone on 11 March 1907, the eldest son of Wilfred Sidney Ageh, a civil engineer and superintendent of Freetown waterworks, and Elizabeth, née Okafor-Smart, a West African of Krio race. His Nigerian great-grandfather had settled in Freetown t