Jack Walsh was director of the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The son of Thomas Walsh, a doctor, and Margaret Walsh née O’Sullivan, he was born in Cork on 4 July 1917. He was educated at Mungret College, University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin, where he qualif

Sydney Vernon Humphries, the eldest child of Sydney William Humphries, a bank manager, and Violet Humphries (née Kirkman), was born on 24 January 1907 at Middelburg, Cape Province, South Africa. He was educated at Michaelhouse, Natal, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, before entering St Thomas's Hosp