Airey aged about seven months with his mother Dorothy. (Neave family)
As a smart little seven-year-old schoolboy. (Neave family)
Airey with his siblings, Averil, Rosamund, Digby and Viola (seated on floor). (Neave family)
The sound of broken glass: Merton College dining club the Myrmidons, 1937. Airey Neave is front row, second from right. (Fellows of Merton College)
The sacrifice: British troops march into captivity after their heroic stand, Calais. (Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)
AN shortly after arriving at Spangenberg. (History and Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)
Colditz Castle. (Wikipedia)
Resisters and escapers: left to right, Francis Blanchain, Mario Prassinos, Hugh Woollatt, AN and Louis Nouveau in the flat on the Quai Rive Neuve, Marseilles, in the spring of 1942.
Jimmy Langley in 1944.
AN with Albert-Marie Guérisse (‘Pat O’Leary’) after the war.
The happiest day of his life: AN and Diana marry after a whirlwind courtship, 29 December 1942. (Neave family)
‘Monday’ – Michael Creswell on a shooting holiday during his stint as a diplomat in pre-war Germany.
Traitor: Harold Cole in one of his many incarnations. (Cumbria Archive Service)
‘Dédée’ – Andrée de Jongh’s courage and dedication won the hearts of many.
Leading lights of ‘Comet’: Jean Greindl.
Jean-François Nothomb.
Peggy van Lier.
Florentino Goïcoechea.
Mary Lindell, aka La Comtesse de Milleville.
A good war: AN towards the end of the conflict. (Neave family)
Evaders await rescue in the Fôret de Fréteval.
British troops move through the burning streets of Arnhem. (Pen & Sword/SSPL/Getty Images)
Nuremberg: AN is just identifiable third from the right in the row behind the judges’ bench.
‘Really beautiful and brilliant.’ Margaret Thatcher applauded by her most devoted fan. (Roger Jackson/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
AN and Diana Neave at the Watchfield Free Festival, August 1975. The ideal political wife, Diana was Airey’s tireless supporter and loyal counsellor and his career was her life’s work. (Paul Fievez/Associated Newspapers/REX/Shutterstock)
Edward du Cann, chair of the 1922 committee and one of the ‘Milk Street Mafia’, 13 October 1974. (Ronald Spencer/Associated Newspapers/REX/Shutterstock)
INLA operative Patsy O’Hara who transported the bomb to Britain. He later died on hunger strike.
The wreckage of AN’s car on the exit ramp of the car park. (PA/Ian Showell/PA Archive/PA Images)
Mourning a dear friend. Margaret Thatcher at AN’s funeral in Oxfordshire. (Ball/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)