Born at Plas-yn-Rhos on 10 September 1894, the fifth child and third son of John Charles Davies, MRCS of Ruabon, then medical officer to No 3 District of the Wrexham Union, and Annie Allan, his wife. He was educated at Epsom College, at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, at Liverpool, and in Lond

The elder son of the Rev Walter Sackett, of Ealing. As a boy he suffered from spinal trouble and lay for many months in a prone position, during which he kept his mind well employed. He received his professional training at St Bar¬tholomew's Hospital, where his career was brilliant. He won the Bentl

Ivor Lewis, was born at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, in October 1895, the only son of a farmer who was devoted to music and Welsh literature, and of a devout mother who always hoped that her son would ultimately take to the pulpit. After early education at Llandello Grammar School, where he did we

Reginald Cyril Bell Ledlie was born in 1898 in Cape Town, and shortly afterwards his father, a business man, moved back to England and the boy went to Whitgift Grammar School with an open scholarship, and when he left school won a scholarship to Guy's Hospital. He was then only 16 and when he qualif

James Gaymer Jones was born at Upper Norwood, London, on 26 August 1891. His father was also an MRCS. He was educated privately and at the West Ham Technical Institute from whence he proceeded to Guy's Hospital in 1910. He gained many prizes in anatomy and physiology. In July 1914 he was mobilised i

Mildred Faulkner (née Warde) was born in Knowsley, Lancs, on 18 February 1897 the daughter of Wilfred Brougham Warde who was medically qualified holding a London MD. She was educated at Hamilton House, Tunbridge Wells, and studied at Manchester University from 1915 to 1918. She studied medicine at t