Myer Kaye qualified MB BS in 1935 and worked as resident medical officer to the Brisbane General Hospital in 1936. He was at the Hospital for Sick Children in Brisbane in 1937 and was medical superintendent to the Mooroopna Hospital in Victoria 1937-8. Moving to England to study for his FRCS he was

Rothwell qualified in New Zealand in 1933. Towards the end of the second world war he took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1944 and the English Fellowship in 1945, having served as surgeon at the Emergency Medical Service Northern Hospital at Winchmore Hill. After serving as assistant surgeon to outp

William Houston was born in Newry, County Down, Eire, on 7 October 1916, the son of William Houston, a wholesale draper, and his wife Hilda, née Robinson, the daughter of a hotel proprietor. He was educated at St Andrew's College, Dublin, and later at Trinity College, to which he gained an entrance

Rowan Nicks was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Sydney, who in later life became one of the most well-known and admired surgeons in Australia, noted especially for his work in promoting the training of surgeons in developing countries. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 24 February 1913 to George

Eric O'Malley ('Ted') was born in 1911 at Cork and was educated at Trinity College Dublin, obtaining his BA degree in 1932. He gained his medical qualifications in 1934, proceeded MCh in 1945 and in the same year obtained his Fellowship. As a student he played rugby and rowed for his college at Henl

Adam Hamilton Harvie was born in 1894 in Middlemarch, Central Otago, the son of a farmer. At the age of 18, he matriculated intending to become a doctor but he served for two years as a private soldier in the Medical Corps in the first world war. He worked to keep himself and eventually qualified MB

Innes Wares Brebner graduated from Edinburgh University in 1906 and was appointed house surgeon of Johannesburg Hospital in 1907. He started in general practice in 1910 and was appointed to the honorary staff of the Johannesburg Hospital as a surgeon in 1915. He served as a Captain in the South A

George Harrison was born on 3 January 1920 in Leeds. His father, also George Harrison, was an engineer. He was educated at Cockburn High School in Leeds and Leeds University Medical School, where he was strongly influenced by Archie Derwood, won the anatomy prize and at first intended to be an anato

Richard Ernest Waterston, the elder son of David Waterston, FRSE, FRCSE, a former Professor of Anatomy at St Andrews University, and of Isabel (née Simson), was born in Edinburgh on 26 May 1908. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University where he graduated in 1931. After resident

Keith Yeates was born a Scotsman but lived almost all his life in Newcastle upon Tyne where he made a great name for himself in urology and a fine reputation for his department. His father William was the manager of a tobacco company in Glasgow and his mother was Winifred, née Scott. They lived in H

Leon Gillis was born 4 September 1908, and had his schooling and undergraduate medical education in South Africa, obtaining the degrees of bachelor of medicine and of surgery at Witwatersrand University in 1935. He then came to England for postgraduate education and after study at Liverpool, in 1937