Douglas John Batterham was born on 18 November 1894, the son of John Williams Batterham, FRCS, of St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated at Aldenham School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took the BA in 1915. He then went to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified with the Conjoint

Stanford Cade was born on 22 March 1895 in St Petersburg. His father was Polish, named Samuel Kadinsky, and Stanford changed his name to Cade by deed poll in 1924. He was sent to school in Antwerp where he matriculated in 1913 and then went to Brussels to commence the study of medicine. In 1914 he j