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Curious about my ancestor’s wartime military voyages

Q Thank you for publishing (FT July 2022) John Reid’s article on the operation of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) in Canada during WW2. My interest stems from the small part played in the BCATP by my late father Robert (‘Bob’) Collier who, it seems from the little that he told the family and a few

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