The Lost Band of Brothers (44 page)

Shining youth: Geoffrey Appleyard as a pre-war schoolboy with the world at his feet. (Appleyard family)

Freshly minted: Geoffrey Appleyard as a newly commissioned second lieutenant in the RASC, 1939. (Appleyard family)

Captain Geoffrey Appleyard MC, photographed in the garden of the Manor House, Linton-on-Wharfe, 1942. (Appleyard family)

Country seat: Manor House, Linton. Home as Geoffrey Appleyard knew it. (Appleyard family)

Captain Gustavus March-Phillipps in Gunners’ (RA) uniform. A pose he adopted, he claimed, to frighten the Germans! It was March-Phillipps’ drive, inspiration and fervent patriotism that led to the formation of both Maid Honor and the Small Scale Raiding Force. (The National Archives)

Graham Hayes with family. Graham, aged 14, is fourth from left with his arm around younger brother Malcolm’s shoulders. (Malcolm Hayes)

Kiln Hill, Linton. Graham Hayes’ family home a few hundred yards uphill from that of his childhood friend, Geoffrey Appleyard. (Annabel Grace Hayes)

Graham Hayes and ‘Grip’, his tame jackdaw. (Annabel Grace Hayes)

The Hayes brothers, from left to right: Malcolm, Denis, Graham (with dog) and Austin. Malcolm, a Halifax bomber pilot with 295 Squadron, was killed over France in February 1943. (Malcolm Hayes)

Wetherby Rugby Club, 1932–33. Graham Hayes is in the back row, third from right. (Annabel Grace Hayes)

The crew of
Pommern
. Graham Hayes is in the back row, third from right. (Malcolm Hayes)

Tall ships and furled sails. Picture taken by Graham Hayes from the stern of
Pommern
. (Annabel Grace Hayes)

Graham Hayes as SSRF knew him. (Appleyard family)