Ronald Wallace Knowlton was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Southampton area. He was born on 12 June 1904, in Southampton, the son of Alexander John Knowlton, a general practitioner and a JP, and Bertha née Bates, a Middlesex Hospital nursing sister. He was educated at King Edward

Philip Ganner was born on 24 November 1904 the son of a general practitioner in Birmingham. He attended the Hallfield preparatory school, Edgbaston and Bradfield College proceeding in due course to study medicine at the Birmingham Medical School graduating in London in 1928. Two years later he obtai