Born on 13 September 1903 at Omeo, Victoria, Australia, son of R J Worcester, he was educated at Melbourne High School, where he won two leaving scholarships and was a leading lacrosse player and the best rifle-shot, and at the University of Melbourne where he won his lacrosse blue and graduated, wi

Born in 1906 Leslie Westfield Gleadell was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, before going on with a scholarship to Melbourne University. As a youth he suffered from a disease of the hip joint, wrongly diagnosed as tuberculosis, and the prescribed long immobilisation left him with irreversible j