Keith Loraine Barnes, the son of a general practitioner, was born in Blackpool and educated at Arnold School and Manchester University where he qualified in 1940. After resident appointments at Manchester Royal Infirmary he enlisted in the Royal Navy and served throughout the second world war in the

Henry Denis Whitwell Powell 'Denis' was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in High Wycombe and Amersham. The middle child and only son of Henry and Margaret Powell, he was born on 23 April 1919 and brought up with his two sisters Celia and Rosalind at Monkton Combe near Bath, in a large house with sev

John Baily was born in Southampton on 29 June 1919, the only son of Guy Baily, an engineer, and of his wife, Kathleen Mary, née Tarrant. His father was at sea while John was a boy, so during his early years he lived with his grandparents in Glasgow. His first school was Glasgow Academy, where his fa