Jock Colville’s farewell to join the RAF, Down­ing Street gar­den, Sep­tem­ber 1941. Front row L-R: Colville, Churchill, John Mar­tin, Tony Bevir. Back row L-R: Leslie Rowan, John Peck, Miss Wat­son, Com­man­der “Tom­my” Thomp­son, Charles Bark­er. (Detail from the dust jack­et of Michael Jack­son, “A Scot­tish Life,” 1999.)