Donald Stuart Kidd was born on May 13, 1920, the third child and second son of Philip Kidd, engineer and his wife Alice, nee Trueman. He was educated at Lefton, NSW, North Sydney Boys' School and Sydney University where he studied medicine. After qualifying MB BS in 1941 he joined the RAAF and serve

Noel Curtis Newton was born on 28 June 1917 at Ashfield, Sydney, Australia. His father was a pharmacist. He was educated at St Joseph's College and Sydney University. He qualified in 1941. He had poliomyelitis at the age of three years, which left him partly paralysed in one leg, and prevented him f

Nugent Elliot Brand was born in Lismore, New South Wales on 1 August 1919, the son of Albert Elliot Brand, a pharmacist, and his wife Margaret Helen, née Cottee. His early education was at Lismore High School and he later went to St Andrew's College in the University of Sydney to study medicine. He

Victor Cumberland qualified in Sydney and came to England after the war to specialise in surgery. Having passed the final FRCS he returned to Sydney to become honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal North Shore Hospital and surgeon to St Joseph's Hospital, Auburn. He died on 20 April 1997.