Born 20 April 1884 at Heyside, near Oldham, Lancashire, the sixth child and fourth son of the Rev Edward Jobson and Sarah, his wife. He was educated at Rossall and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was elected an exhibitioner in 1903. He was placed in the second class in Part 1 of the Na

Born on 8 December 1886 the son of William and Lucy Sutton Simmonds, he was educated at Bancroft's School, the Middlesex Hospital and St Bartholomew's, qualifying in 1910. He served as house physician, house surgeon and casualty officer at the Middlesex Hospital, and then went into general practice

Born on 17 September 1886 the son of Keshavlal Dalàl, a broker by occupation and a Hindu Bania by religion. He was educated at Bombay University, at King's College Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital in London. He was appointed lecturer on diseases of the ear, nose and throat at the Jamsetjee Jejeeb

Born on 17 February 1888, son of Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Cooke Alton CB, CMG, RN, he was educated at Bedford School. After qualifying from St Thomas's Hospital in 1910, he entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon. Four years later he graduated MB BS at London University. During the first world