Eric Miles Atkinson was born in London on 28 April 1895 and was educated at Epsom College. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1912 but his medical studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914 when he served as a motorcycle despatch rider with the British Expeditionary Force in France

Keen was born on 4 July 1894 and qualified from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School during the first world war, and served as a medical officer in East Africa. After the war he obtained the FRCS, and practised as an ENT surgeon in Leicester for over fifteen years. He then diverted his career to an

Allen Dingley, the son and grandson of doctors, was born in London on 28 October 1892. He was educated at Highgate School and then the Leys School, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1917. Shortly after his first resident j