LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
2. My father, George Arnold Gill
3. This is me at fourteen months being held by my nurse
4. My father relaxing in our garden
5. My mother and her younger brother Clifford
6. My mother’s parents, William and Emily Taylor
7. The wedding of Sarah Jane Taylor, my great-aunt
8. Fred and Will Taylor, my great-uncles
9. My great-grandmother Taylor, in formal pose
10. William Taylor, my grandfather
11. My grandmother, Emily Thomas Taylor
12. My grandmother Taylor (on the right) with a friend
13. Henry Talbot, my grandmother’s admirer
14. At Winchester with my grandmother
15. My grandfather, George Gill, and me
16. Out and about with my mother at Herne Bay
18. Here I am in my spinal chair with my father, grandfather and dog Patch
20. Stephen Coltham, my tutor, who was an important influence on me as a boy
21. No. 28 Squadron RAF, Skegness, 1942
23. Jimmy Blair and me in Dublin, September 1943
24. Pilot Officer Michael Gill
25. The ops board at Hartford Bridge on D+1, 7 June 1944
26. An RAF Mitchell bomber takes off to attack a target in Northern France shortly after D-Day, 1944
27. No. 137 Wing, Hartford Bridge, 1944
28. The special fog dispersal aid ‘Fido’ in operation at an RAF bomber station
30. Medal presentation parade at Hartford Bridge, September 1944
31. Enjoying a drink at a café on the Champs Elysees with Hillerby, our Met Officer
34. Germany, 1945. I’m on the right. We both had revolvers
35. Ruined Cologne, but the cathedral survived
Copyright note
The extract from Stephen Spender’s poem ‘I think continually of those who were truly great’ on p. 170 is reproduced by kind permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.