Scott was born in 1907 in London, the son of a consultant aurist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, receiving his medical education at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1939 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and went to France, luckily getting home in 1940. He was then posted to India as e

John Fulford Jarvis was born at Carshalton, Surrey, in 1910 and educated at Whitgift School, winning an open scholarship at King's College and King's College Hospital. He graduated in 1933 and then took the MRCP and the FRCS. He joined the Colonial Medical Service to work in Tanganyika in 1936. He w

Ian Robin was a distinguished London ear, nose and throat consultant. He was born at Woodford Green, Essex, on 22 May 1909, the son of Arthur Robin, a Scottish general practitioner, and Elizabeth Parker née Arnold, his American mother. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, in Edinburgh, and a