Born on the 4 August 1897 at Cardiff, the only son of David Jones, works manager for Guest, Keen and Nettlefold, he was educated at Cardiff High School and the University of South Wales, obtaining a BSc in 1919. For his medical education he attended the Welsh National School of Medicine, qualifying

Griffith John Griffiths was born in Barry on 23 September 1901. He was educated at Barry County School and Cardiff University before qualifying from the Middlesex Hospital. He was then in the Royal Air Force Medical Branch for three years on a short service commission in Egypt and Iraq before return

Robert Claude Taylor was born in Hampstead on 9 May 1901, the eldest child of Edwin Claude Taylor MD, MS, FRCS (1981-1924), see *Lives of the Fellows*, Vol.2, p.386. He was educated at Heath Mount School in Hampstead and Leighton Park School, Reading, before entering University College for medical s