John Bourdillon was born in Oxford in 1914, the son of Francis Bourdillon, a modern languages don at Balliol who later went into naval intelligence, took part in the Versailles Peace Conference and became First Secretary of the Institute of International Affairs. John Bourdillon's godfather was G R

Elmer Samuel James was born in Craigmont, Ontario in 1910. He went to school in Biggar, Saskatchewan, and then to Winnipeg for the medical course, graduating MD in the University of Manitoba in 1935. He subsequently came to Great Britain for postgraduate training, passed the Conjoint Board examinati

Michael Kugler received his medical education at Guy's Hospital, whence he qualified MB BS in 1946. After qualification he specialised in orthopaedics and was for a time senior orthopaedic registrar at the West Middlesex Hospital. He emigrated to Canada, practising in Toronto first as orthopaedic re

Little can be discovered about Ian MacNab. He received his medical education at Birmingham, whence he graduated MB ChB in 1943 and obtained the Fellowship in 1947. Emigrating to Canada he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and specialised in orthopaedic surgery, and was a pro