Born on 3 November 1903, the son of Dr H M Wood and Lola Lyon-Campbell, Hubert Lyon-Campbell Wood was educated at Marlborough College and King's College Hospital, London, where he qualified in 1926. In the following year he obtained the MB BS London with honours. His house appointments at King's wer

Evan Stanley Evans, the eldest son of David Evans, was born on 2 July 1904. There are no details of his early education before he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. After qualifying in 1927 he was house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and later moved to Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, where

Born at Royton near Oldham on 13 May 1903 the youngest of six children of a farmer who died the following year, he won his way to Hulme Grammar School with great determination in face of poverty. There he became captain of the cricket XI, and then went to Guy's Hospital where he served as demonstrat

John Adye Cholmeley was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, on 31 October 1902, the son of Doctor Mountague Adye Cholmeley and his wife Mary Bertha Gordon, née Cumming. His uncle, William Frederick Cholmeley FRCS, was surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. He was educated at the Abbey School, Bec