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      <image:caption>On 26th February, I handed over the Mk XIV bomb sight to a member of the Royal Canadian Airforce at a hotel in Stirling. I am the white haired person on the right.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Telegraph intimating Joe’s death. Dated 2 September 1944.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>from author’s collection of auld dyke images</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>from the author’s collection of shimmering horses</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>author’s collection of flesh eating corbies.</image:caption>
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