Born at 20 College Crescent, South Hampstead, NW on 24 July 1905 the younger child of Henry Wilkes Gibson, MRCS a general medical practitioner, and Jane Grant, his wife. He was educated at Rugby School and matriculated from University College, Oxford in October 1923. At Oxford he gained the Theodore

Born on 25 June 1902, son of John Forrester Wood FRCS of Southport, he wished to make the army his career but the loss of sight in one eye at the age of 12 prevented this. Educated at Cheltenham College he was apprenticed at 16 to a firm of engineers, but owing to the world depression his father adv