Edward Holmes Rainey was born at Paignton on 5 April 1886 and educated at Bedford School and the London Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1909. He was house surgeon to Russell Howard and in 1913 took the FRCS. He then settled in general practice at Eastbourne, Sussex, but soon volunt

Clement Edward Shattock was born 2 August 1887, at Clapham, London, the second son of Samuel George Shattock, FRS, FRCS, and Lucy Wood. He was educated at Wimbledon College and University College Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1909. He had a brilliant academic career, obtaining entran