George Elkington was born in Newport, Shropshire on 20 March 1889, the eldest child of two general practitioners, Ernest Alfred and Annie Isabella Baddeley. The Baddeley practice had existed in Newport since the 1770's and the Elkington family had practised medicine in Birmingham since the 1830's. G

Born on 22 March 1896 at Lees, Lancashire, son of Thomas Henry Halliwell, bank manager, and his wife Ada Clare, he was educated at King Edward VII School, Lytham St Anne's and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He then entered the RNVR as a Surgeon Probationer and saw active service in a Flow

Born on 13 February 1896, son of Arthur John Cardell, he was educated at Epsom College and St Thomas's Hospital. At Epsom he was awarded the Jenks Scholarship in 1914 and at St Thomas's he was awarded the William Tite Scholarship for 1914-1915, the Peacock Scholarship for 1915-1916 and a second tenu

Edward Phillimore Brockman was born at Liverpool in 1895 and educated at Liverpool College and at Cambridge. His university career was interrupted by the first world war, when he served in the Royal Navy before returning to St Thomas's Hospital. He qualified in 1919 and proceeded in due course to th

Angus Hedley Whyte was born in South Shields on 23 May 1897. His father, Dr John Whyte JP, was a well-known general practitioner in the town and also a distinguished Gaelic scholar. His mother, Helen Hedley, was the daughter of a farmer at Kielder in North Northumberland. Angus was an only son. He w

Reginald Cyril Bell Ledlie was born in 1898 in Cape Town, and shortly afterwards his father, a business man, moved back to England and the boy went to Whitgift Grammar School with an open scholarship, and when he left school won a scholarship to Guy's Hospital. He was then only 16 and when he qualif