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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 sergeants 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. 

Alan Sherlock
Eric Sherlock

 
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