Frederick James Theodore Foenander was born in Colombo on 22 September 1898, the only son of Dr F V Foenander, a provincial surgeon in the Department of Medical and Sanitary Services. He was educated at St Thomas's College, Colombo, and entered Ceylon Medical College in 1918. In 1921 he entered the

John Henry Milnes Walker was born on 16 March 1902 in Wakefield, the son of John William Walker and his wife Constance Elizabeth, née Holdsworth. His father and grandfather had both been surgeons on the staff of Clayton Hospital and his wife's father had been a physician there. He was educated at Ou