Arthur Wilfred Adams was born in Bristol on 30 September 1892 and educated at Clifton College, the Bristol Medical School and the London Hospital. He qualified in 1916 and then served in the RAMC. He took the FRCS in 1919, less than one year after demobilization, and proceeded to the MS in 1921. The

William Bashall Gabriel was born on 2 October 1893 and spent his boyhood at Oulton Broad, Suffolk. There he learned to sail, a hobby which was a joy to him throughout his life. Educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and Epsom College, he qualified at the Middlesex Hospital in 1916 and after a house

Douglas was born on 25 May 1893, was educated at Bristol University, and the Middlesex and London Hospitals. In 1913 he graduated BSc with first class honours after research in biochemistry. When war broke out in 1914, he joined the Worcester Regiment, and gave up his work as a medical student to se