Edward Drake's life spanned a period of great change. He was born on 30 April 1910 in South Shields into a very different world from that which he left in 1992. He was educated at the Leys School and Jesus College, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, where he passed

Arthur Bryson was an orthopaedic surgeon in China, Nigeria and London. He was born in China in 1910, the son and grandson of a well-known missionary family. After surgical training in England he returned to China with the Council for World Mission, serving with the Chinese Red Cross in the Sino-Japa