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Frederick Banting was born on November 14, 1891 in Alliston, Ontario. Frederick had 4 older siblings. Throughout his life, he was a medical scientist, doctor and a painter. When he was 25 he joined the Canadian army medical corps and served in World War One. He later was injured in the battle of Cambrai. When he returned from the war, he started studying medicine and slowly became interested in diabetes. Frederick married a woman named Marion Robertson and had a son with her named William. In 1932, Frederick and Marion divorced and later on Frederick remarried to a woman named Henrietta Ball. In February of 1941, Frederick was killed in an air disaster in Newfoundland.