Andrew McDowall was born at Bradford on 22 February 1901 of parents who had been born and brought up in Wigtownshire. He was educated first at Fort William School, where he developed a great interest in history. He went on to George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and then to Edinburgh University, wher

Ewen Murchison rose to be Surgeon Captain in the Royal Navy. On retirement he was civilian consultant surgeon to the Navy in Gibraltar. He was an associate member of the Association of Plastic Surgeons. He died in Gibraltar on 19 December 2002.

Jagan Nath Madan was born on 12 June 1896 in Sahowala, in the district of Sialkot. He was the second child of Karamchand Adan, a doctor. After school in Batalia he attended the Lahore Medical College in the Punjab where he won a silver medal in anatomy and graduated MB, BS in 1919. After an appointm