Lewis Cook was educated at, and house physician to, the Westminster Hospital before he joined the Indian Medical Service. He rose to the rank of Colonel and was Inspector General of the civil hospitals of Bihar and Orissa. He died in 1965 at the age of 89 years.

Herbert George Tymms graduated MB in the University of Melbourne in 1894, and BS in 1895. He then became RMO at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1895-6, and subsequently came to England where he obtained the Conjoint Board Diploma in 1899 and the FRCS in 1901. On returning to Australia he settled in

Sydney Scott was born in Shrewsbury on 1 June, 1875. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and immediately after qualifying with the Conjoint Board Diploma in 1899 joined up as a civil surgeon in the South African Field Force, and was awarded the Queen's Medal with three clasps. When the