Claude Edward Puckle Markby was born on 3 September 1906 in Madras, India. He was educated in Swanage, St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1927. He received his medical education at St Thomas's Hospital and was house surgeon to W H C Romanis and H

Stanley Willson Holmes was born in Reading on 1 October 1906, the son of Arthur Perceval Holmes, a company director and Emily Mabel Mills, sister of Bertram Mills the circus proprietor. His early education was at Hendon Preparatory School and University College School, Hampstead, after which he ente

Richard Harrington Franklin, or 'Dick' as he was always known, was born in London on 3 April 1906, the son of Major P C Franklin. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1930 and proceeded to a house post at St Thomas's, taking the Fellows