Colonel John Talbot Dunn was director of medical services for the Australian Army. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 8 October 1927, the son of Talbot Lewis Dunn, a doctor, and Leonore Aroha Meyer. In 1954 he was working at the Royal Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales. He then went to

James Forrest Shepherd was born on 3 December 1899 and educated at Aberdeen University where he graduated MB ChB, in 1922. He then spent a short time in general practice and a year as house surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Monmouthshire. In 1924 he joined the Indian Medical Service and