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With my mother, brother Richard and our ayah, 1944.
On my pony, probably in Agra around my fourth birthday, 1945.
With my mother, father and brother Tim. Donaghadee, 1946.
Above: With Bridie. Dongahadee, c.1946.
Above: My first salmon (John Murphy in the background). Lough Melvin, 1952.
Right: High jump, Garth House School, Bangor, c.1950.
Kirkman’s, Bedford School, 1954 (I am fifth from right, middle row). (Photo: Bedford School)
Bedford School 1st XV, 1958 (I am fourth from left, back row). (Photo: Bedford School)
YO 19 1959. Left to right, back row: Angus Gordon, Richard Armstead, Roger Munton, Ron Wheeler. Middle row: me, Peter Clough, Andy Moreland, Tim Courtenay, Jim Bartlett, Rupert van der Horst. Front row: Our weapons instructors.
The Doone Valley, Exmoor. Autumn 1959.
Jane, 1960.
Before my first parachute jump. Singapore, 1960. Left to right: Tim Courtenay, me, Rupert van der Horst.
Jungle training, Fort Rekum, Malaya, with Rupert van der Horst, 1961. (Photo by Tim Courtenay)
‘Makan salamat’ – a welcoming feast for my irregulars on their return home after a raid. Stass, Borneo, 1963.
Jane and Tigger, Singapore, 1963.
The helicopter landing site at Stass, Borneo, 1963.
Above: ‘The Jesus Christ moment’. HMS Anchorite surfacing, Pulau Tioman, Malaysia, 1965.
Right: ‘Goldfish’ – riding the periscope before re-entering the submerged submarine to return home after an exercise. Pulau Tioman, 1966.
Driving Archie. Jahore Straights, Singapore, 1966.
Above: Ah Moy, our amah, Kate and Simon (with the green bucket). Hong Kong, 1968.
Left: Teaching Jane to fire a sub-machine gun, Stonecutters Island, Hong Kong, 1969.
Above: With Kate, Jane and Tandy (between us) walking on the mountains of Hong Kong, 1968/9.
Right: With my Sergeant Major (Bert Blythe), the Shankill Road, Belfast, 1970.
Left: The ‘day job’. Signing a World Intellectual Property Organisation agreement. UN, Geneva, 1975.
Above: With my brother, our guide, David Martin and Simon Cornwall on the summit of Mont Blanc, June 1975.
Right: Maison Kundig (on the right), Lake Geneva, 1975.
With Simon, Jane and Kate on our allotment in 1978; I am wearing the ‘Turin Shroud’. (This photograph was used on my 1979 Election address.)
Yeovil Constituency Liberal Association Executive Committee, 1982. 10
The winning of Yeovil (note the look of relief and shock on our faces), 9 June 1983. (Photo: Western Daily Press)
My first Leader’s speech at the first conference of the new merged Party, with Jane and Ian Wrigglesworth, Blackpool, September 1988. (Photo: The Guardian)
Arguing with Karadzic, August 1992. (Photo by Lord Russell-Johnston)
Above: One of the old men at Trnopolje, August 1992. (Photo by Lord Russell-Johnston)
Right: Sarajevo graves, winter 1992. (Photo by Nick South)
The goldfish joke. With Major and Blair, August 1995. (Photo: Press Association)
On a trawler during my ‘Beyond Westminster’ tour, autumn 1993. (Photo by Paul Reas)
Comforting Fadila at her brother’s graveside, Srebrenica, July 2005. (Photo: Kate Holt/eyevine)
Jane and the widows of Sutjeska above Srebrenica, autumn 2002.
With Ahmed Sitkić, his sister and Jane above the Drina Valley, June 2003.
With Simon, Kate, Lois, Jane (with Annie Rose on her knee) and Matthias outside the Lord Nelson pub in Norton sub Hamdon, July 2008. (Photo by Stephanie Bailey)
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