Thomas Collyer Summers studied medicine at the London Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1924. He held appointments as ophthalmic surgeon to the Connaught Hospital, the King George Hospital, Ilford, and the Brentwood and District Hospital. He was then appointed honorary consulting ophthalmic surgeon to

John Myles Bickerton was born at Hoylake, Cheshire on 28 August 1894, the youngest son of Thomas Herbert Bickerton, and Mary Jessie, née Burton. He was educated at the Leas School, Hoylake, Leighton Park School, Reading, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School where h

Frederick Arnold Williamson-Noble was born on 26 July, 1889, the son of the late Mr G E Williamson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was educated at Oundle School, Queen's College, Cambridge and at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1914 and joined the Royal Navy, in which he served through