Born on 19 March 1896 in London he was educated at William Ellis School, King's College, and the Westminster Hospital where he won a gold medal at graduation. Qualifying in the middle of the first world war, he was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and transferred to the Royal Flyi

Born in 1882, the daughter of James Lewis, Lieutenant, Royal Navy and Emily Catherine Wooldridge, in her late 20's she gave up a successful teaching career in music to take up the study of medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1917 and graduatin

Born in 1892 at Queenstown, Eastern Province, South Africa, he was educated at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, and at the King's College Hospital, London. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he enlisted in the London Rifle Volunteers and saw service in France as a combatant, with the rank of corp