Reid received his medical education at Oxford and the Middlesex Hospital, qualified with the conjoint diploma and the Oxford BM BCh in 1937 and gained his Fellowship in 1949. Having obtained the DLO in 1940 he decided to specialise in otolaryngology and was assistant ENT surgeon at the Royal Victori

Gerard Irvine was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in the Royal Navy. He was born in Naini Tal, India, on 19 June 1913, the son of Major Gerard Byrom Corrie Irvine of the Indian Army and Maud Andree née Wylde. His grandfather, Gerard James Irvine, had served in the Navy as Inspector General of Hos

Clifford Francis Evans was born on 24 July 1899 at Dimboola, Victoria, Australia, where his parents had emigrated from England; his father, Frank Evans, was a master builder and his mother, Martha East, had been a schoolmistress. He qualified as a pharmaceutical chemist from Melbourne College of