Alan Cameron Maconie received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital whence he qualified MB, BS in 1923. After holding house posts at St Bartholomew's and the Royal Northern Hospitals, he specialised in otolaryngology and was successively surgeon in the ENT departments at the Virginia Wa

Francis Louis was born in 1900, and went for his medical education to University College, London where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1922, proceeding to the London University degree in 1924. In 1926 he obtained the FRCS and then held posts in general surgery in various London hospitals,

Philip Reginald Hawe was born at Callan, Co Kilkenny, Eire, in 1900. The family moved to Liverpool in 1905 and as a result he was educated there at the Catholic Institute in Hope Street. In his senior year he was awarded the Robert Gee Scholarship in medicine and the John Rankin Scholarship in engin