Lindsay Sangster Rogers was a professor of clinical surgery at the Royal School of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq. He was born in 1902 in Dunedin, Otago, the son of David Rogers, who had emigrated to New Zealand from the Hebrides in Scotland, and Eliza Jane Rogers née Nimmo. He was educated at Otago Boys’

Ascroft was born on 4 September 1906, the only son of James Arthur Ascroft of Bootle, Lancashire and Hannah Byers of Culton, Cumberland. He was educated at Worksop, the Middlesex Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg, qualifying in 1930; the next year he gained the gold medal at his Master of S