John Dickinson, always known as 'Dickie', was born in Birkenhead in 1909. After studying at Cambridge he went on to Guy's Hospital, where he qualified in 1934. He served in the RAMC during the second world war, in Assam and in a mobile surgical unit in Burma. He was appointed to the General Lying

Stanley Clayton was born on 13 September 1911, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath and qualified from King's College Hospital. He served with distinction as a Major in the RAMC and then resumed his career in obstetrics and gynaecology at King's where he developed a re