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Thank you to Elspeth Barker and Sebastian Barker for their kind permission to make use of passages from the letters and work of George Barker and Elizabeth Smart. Thank you to Georgina Barker for her untiring help, advice and for her many family photographs. Thank you also Arthur Barker, the late Ilse Barker, Graham and Olga Damant, Didy Holland-Martin, Laurence and Carol Scott, Jennifer Smart, the Coldstream Guard Archive. ix acknowledgments This page intentionally left blank ...

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