Born on 8 July 1898 at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Educated at the Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and at Adelaide University. The first world war interrupted his studies, and he joined the Royal Flying Corps and flew in France as a pilot on operations. When he was demobilized he returned to Aus

Harry Teesdale Simmons was born on 17 February 1903, and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1924. He then spent a year in junior hospital appointments, and afterwards worked in physiology obtaining the BSc in 1926, presumably as part of his b

Norman Murdoch Matheson was born in Stanway and was educated at Wellington College, New Zealand, and despite a serious rugger injury which necessitated six months in hospital he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served in an infantry battalion in France in 1918. He was demobilised in 19