Sidney Bertram Radley was born on 18 September 1888 and received his medical education at Manchester University and St Bartholomew's Hospital, graduating in London with honours and a distinction in medicine in 1911, and in Manchester with second-class honours in the same year. In 1913 he took both t

John Tertius Morrison was born in Calcutta on 19 January 1888 of Scottish missionary parents. He grew up in Paisley and Edinburgh, where he graduated in medicine in 1911, winning the Ettles Scholarship. After studying in London he gained the FRCS in 1913. He served throughout the first world war in

Norman Lake was born in Plymouth in July 1888. He had a brilliant undergraduate career in the University of London, taking a BSc degree with honours in anatomy and morphology, and also honours in anatomy and physiology in the second MB, and passing the final MB BS in 1910. Next year he won the gold