Bryan Rowlands was born at Henley-on-Thames on 11 August 1917. He was educated at Henley and at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1940 in the middle of the London blitz. Being anxious to play his part in the war he did house appointments at Reading and immediately joined the London Sc

Athol George Riddell was born in Whitstable on 31 January 1917. He was educated at Folkestone and University College, London, where he gained the Gold Medal in physiology, graduating from University College Hospital Medical School in 1939. After holding a resident surgical post on the Professorial U

Roger Miles was born in Liverpool on 1 May 1915, the third child of Edwin Griffith Miles, a Presbyterian minister and Annie Miles, née Jones. Most of his childhood was spent in Felixstowe on the Suffolk coast where he developed his lifelong love of sailing and the sea. He was educated at Bradfield C