Born about 1891, he was educated at the University of Sydney, qualified in 1914 and, after serving as a resident at Sydney Hospital, went on active service in 1915, was mentioned in dispatches, won the DSO 1918, and was demobilised as a Lieutenant-Colonel, Australian Army Medical Corps; he was also

Born on 22 December 1902 at Dunedin, New Zealand the son of J J Read, he entered the medical school of Otago University in 1920, qualifying in 1924 with the medal in clinical medicine. After holding resident appointments at Dunedin Hospital, he came to England for postgraduate study in obstetrics an