Born 22 August 1892, the third and youngest son of George Douglas Pidcock, MD Cambridge, MRCP, who was in general practice at 74 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead, London, NW. Mrs Pidcock, née Thorn, had previously been married to a Mr Tasker, and had a son by that first marriage. He was educated at Univ

Born on 1 July 1892, son of John Henry Lloyd, and of Quaker stock, he was educated at Leighton Park School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a half-blue for running in 1914. For his clinical studies he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital and, on qualifying, he joined the Friends' Am

Born on 21 January 1893, son of Charles Carter Braine FRCS and Harriet Jane Evans his wife. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and immediately on qualifying in 1916 he entered the RAMC and saw active service in France and East Africa. After the war he came back to Guy's as demonstrator of anatomy (1