Howard Middlemiss was at school at Repton and received his medical training at Durham University where he qualified in 1940. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in India and Normandy as a Lieutenant-Colonel and during this time he developed his interest and concern for countries overseas. At t

James William Douglas Bull, the son of a general practitioner in Buckinghamshire, was educated at Repton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before securing an entrance scholarship to St George's Hospital Medical School and graduating there in 1936. One of his uncles was a radiologist and