'Boy' Bouchier, as he was known, who died in 1979, was both a remarkable 'soldier's soldier' and a 'diplomat's diplomat', combining battlefield courage and endurance with great leadership skills and a keen understanding of human nature. As a soldier in World War I in the Honourable Artillery Company, he found fighting the Senussi in the desert so gruelling, he recalls gazing up at the small aircraft of the Royal Air Corps and longing for a life that might be short but at least would be clean He soon managed to get transferred to the RAC and learned to fly, so successfully, in fact, that,...