For men and women conscripted during the Second World War, serving their country broadened their horizons. One unlikely friendship forged during that time was that between Major Denis Healey of the Royal Engineers and Lieutenant Miles Norfolk of the Grenadier Guards. They encountered one another during the battle of Anzio in January 1944 when Healey was the military landing officer for the British assault brigade, and again during the Normandy landings. They kept in touch after the war when Healey, who died last week at the age of 98 (pictured receiving a veterans’ badge at the House of Commons), went into politics, becoming Secretary of State for Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Wilson and Callaghan governments, while Norfolk became Duke of Norfolk in 1975 and the pre