Dare to Be a Daniel (36 page)

Flying solo in a Fairchild Cornell, Rhodesia, 1944.

Formation flying an Airspeed Oxford, Rhodesia, 1944.

On ‘Wings’ parade, Rhodesia, March 8, 1945.

My first meeting with Caroline (2 August, 1948): Tony Crosland offered to photograph a re-staging of the moment, a year later in 1949.

Sitting on the bench on which I proposed to Caroline in 1948 at Oxford; an event also photographed by Tony Crosland a year later.

Caroline with Tony Crosland, back from the ‘Paras’ and by 1949 a don at Trinity College, Oxford.

Mr and Mrs Benn-to-be at Stansgate, 1948, before Caroline returned to Cincinnati.

Caroline with our first car, a Morris Oxford, which lasted from 1928 to 1954. Its successor, another Morris Oxford, is still at Stansgate.

Caroline at her home, on the morning of our wedding, 17 June, 1949.

A few hours later, at the Church of the Advent in Cincinnati.

A beautiful bride.

Nurse Olive Winch (Buddy) with my first son, Stephen, July 1952.

Cincinnati, 1959, with Caroline’s parents (seated, below me), her brother Graydon (to left), and Caroline’s sister, Nance (to right). Our four children are seated among the grown-ups.

Sitting on our special bench, 1979