Petrous Roufa 'Peter' Shaeena was a general practitioner in Coventry and a police surgeon. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on 13 October 1935, the son of Roufa Shaeena, professor of woodcraft and cabinet making at Baghdad Technical College and a lecturer at the Engineering College, Baghdad, and Sabiha

Duncan Gillard Churcher was born at Dunoon, Scotland, on 4 October 1894, one of six children of Dr Thomas Churcher, a medical missionary, and Margaret, née Robertson, an Edinburgh trained nurse. He was educated at the City of London School and obtained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital which he