Douglas was born on 25 May 1893, was educated at Bristol University, and the Middlesex and London Hospitals. In 1913 he graduated BSc with first class honours after research in biochemistry. When war broke out in 1914, he joined the Worcester Regiment, and gave up his work as a medical student to se

Born on 10 March 1891, son of T L and S A Griffiths, he studied medicine at the University of Wales and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He served as a surgeon-probationer in the RNVR 1914-15, qualified in 1916, and was a surgeon to the 1st London Hospital 1916-18, being mentioned in dispatches. He was al