David Wilkie qualified in medicine in Edinburgh in 1926 and held early appointments in that city. His brother John Leonard Wilkie was an ophthalmologist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. At the end of the second world war he moved to Cheshire and took up an appointment a

Alistair Campbell McEachern was born on 30 June 1904 at Mt Gambier, South Australia. He was the son of Alexander McLean McEachern, a grazier and his wife, Catherine Jane, née McFarlane. He was educated at Mt Gambier High School and entered the Adelaide High School with the Thomas Price Scholarship i