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What is not a legend is that Ogilvie met the current occupant of the palace. Queen Elizabeth talked to him on September 15, 1990, at a ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

Irene Ogilvie, who will be ninety-one in 2010, lives in a retirement home in Ottawa. She still remembers the photos she printed of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. When she hears younger people denying the Holocaust, she feels like telling them that she saw evidence of atrocities.

The German doctors’ opinion that Ogilvie’s arm would heal properly turned out to be correct. He had full use of his arm, even when he golfed. Ogilvie’s son, Keith Ogilvie Jr., however, thinks that the cold winters at Stalag Luft III and the forced march across Germany may have contributed to the arthritis that his father suffered later in life.

Keith Ogilvie died in 1998. The Ogilvie family spread some of the ashes of the career officer in the rose garden of the chapel at the Biggin Hill airbase in England.