Everard Devenish was born on 26 May 1909 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the son of Louis Devenish, a cocoa planter, and his wife Wilhelmina, née Urich. He received his schooling at St Mary's College in Trinidad and was a Colonial Science Scholar there before his medical training at University College H

Born on 3 November 1903, the son of Dr H M Wood and Lola Lyon-Campbell, Hubert Lyon-Campbell Wood was educated at Marlborough College and King's College Hospital, London, where he qualified in 1926. In the following year he obtained the MB BS London with honours. His house appointments at King's wer

Arthur Wallis Kendall, the son of Dr J A Kendall was educated at Barnard Castle School, King's College, London, and King's College Hospital, qualifying in 1926 and graduating MB in 1927 and MS in 1934; he became FRCS in 1931. He held posts as house-surgeon at King's and as surgical registrar at the

Gerald Victor Wright Anderson was born on 19 October 1893 at Porth Nolloth, Cape Colony, during the Boer War. His schooling was very erratic with short spells in Mombasa, England and France. He entered Bristol University for one year in 1909 and passed his first MB, but then rejoined his father as a

Lewis Herbert Savin was born in London on 26 March 1901. His parents were missionaries who had fled from China at the time of the Boxer rebellion a few months before his birth. Shortly after, his father and mother returned to the hospital that his father had founded at Chao Tung in Yunnan. He used t

David Trevor, the third child and second son of John Trevor, a dairyman and sub- postmaster, and of Sarah (née Jones) the daughter of a sheep farmer, was born in Fulham, London on 24 July 1906. Having started school in North London he was sent to Wales to be brought up by his grandmother n a sheep f