Frederick William Widgery was born on 11 April 1896, in Exeter, the third child of Frederick John Widgery, the artist and his wife Bertha, née Lunt. He was educated at Exeter School and studied medicine at Guy's where it is thought that he won a Gold Medal and was appointed out-patients officer. He

Eric Coldrey was born in London on 13 April 1901, the son of Arthur Algernon Coldrey and his wife, Florence, née Shearsmith. He was educated at the Tollington School in London and received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was Brackenbury and Baly Scholar. He became a house

Darryl Corry was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 10 February 1898, the son of William, a graduate of Belfast and also a surgeon, and his wife Lily Anne, née Meakin. His younger brother, a member of this College, became a general practitioner in Binnaway in Australia and was awarded the MBE for his

David Howard Patey was born in 1899 in Monmouth, the eldest of three children. His father was a West Country man and his mother Welsh. He went to school in Llandovery, where an iron regimen of rugby football and the classics prevailed, and came to Middlesex Hospital for his preclinical and clinical

Born on 4 May 1898 at Hornsey, Middlesex, the third son of Alick Wellstead Capener, an engineer, and Ada Isabella Tree, Norman Capener was one of six brothers, all of whom were educated at the City of London School through musical scholarships in the choir of the Temple Church, London, where, under