Born at Godalming on 8 November 1889, the elder son of the Rev William Francis Romanis, Preacher of the Charterhouse, and Annie Ellen Cowie, he was educated at Charterhouse where he was a scholar and became head of the school. Going up to Trinity College, Cambridge as a mathematical scholar he obtai

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

Robert John McNeill Love was born in Devonport on 2 May 1891. His father, Joseph Boyd Love, JP, was an Ulsterman who came to England virtually penniless though he eventually built up a substantial and highly successful warehousing firm in Plymouth, and was mayor of that city at the time of Robert's