[Col Bruggy]

Adriano,

Thanks for the clarification on A. J. Toft/"Larry" Toft. The question arose out of the index entries in Oliver Clutton-Brocks' book, Trusty To The End - The History of 148 (Special Duties) Squadron 1918-1945. Clutton-Brock has two entries in his index, one relates to, Toft, F/S AJ (pp.399, 434, & 324), the other example is, Toft, W/O L (pp.435, 436, 440 & 448). Both relate to the same individual. To complicate matters, it seems the index was compiled sometime before the final format of the book was decided, and most references are a page or two out of sequence. It looks as if pages were added to the book after the index was constructed.

The book itself is a shocker. It really should be reprinted by an organization with some concept of how to prepare a book for publication, ie, poor illustrations, text out of sequence, poor index (many citations missing) etc. Don't they employ copyeditors or proofreaders anymore? No complaints with Clutton-Brocks' work, that's fine, but the above problems make the book difficult to read/use as a reference.

Col.