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From Bob Carswell of Toronto on 11
Jan 2004:
I have just e-mailed the photo of the
Sherlock twins in uniform to my Dad to see if he or my Mother can
identify them.
My parents met as officers at Wigtown during the
war. The twins became pilot sargeants in the RAF and were at RAF Wigtown
early on in the war towing targets for the air gunnery school. Dad
was their flight commander and was the one who recommended them for a
commission.
They went on from there to bombers and flew a great
deal in the Middle East, I believe.
They remained in the RAF after
the war. Allan became Aide-de-camp to the
Governor General of Canada, Field Marshall Lord Alexander. While in
Ottawa he met and married the daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Canada,
Mr. Steinholdt(?), who later died in a plane crash going to or
from Ottawa.
I do not know where either twin ended up from there. During the war they attended my parents' wedding in Croydon, England in
1942, but like many things that happened in the war, people lost touch
after that.
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