Geoffrey James Lillie was born on 5 December 1902 at Launceston, Tasmania, in the Tamar valley and by chance settled later in a small Devon village close to the English Tamar valley. His father, James Lillie, was an insurance manager and his mother Louise Ursula Lillie (née McEachern) was the daught

Bryan Tobin Keon-Cohen was born on 1 June 1903, the second son of the Honorable Henry Isaac Cohen, KC, and of Ethel Mary Cohen, a concert pianist. He claimed to be the only renegade from an entirely legal family and was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and then Trinity College in the Universit

Henry Hill was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, on 18 May 1905, the son of John Manners Hill, a builder, and Caroline Alcock. He was educated at Guildford and Christchurch Grammar Schools in Western Australia, and Ormond College in Melbourne. He trained at Melbourne University, where he won an

Roland Barnes was the first professor of orthopaedic surgery at Glasgow University. He was born in Accrington, Lancashire, on 21 May 1907. His father, Benjamin, was a master baker. His mother was Mary Anne, née Bridge. He was educated at Accrington Grammar School and Manchester University, where he