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touch. “There were exchange visits and the New Zealanders stayed in New Abbey when they came over.“While they were here they would visit farms and viewed stock.“One New Zealand boy sent over to us we had working as a mechanic at Peacock’s hauliers in Dumfries.“I also sent my son John over there because he wanted to farm.“He learned many things and it did him the world of good.“These days he has his own farm at Laneside at Troqueer.”Ian’s cousin Jim Kingan, who ran the farming business at Lochhill, even named his son Russell after a Kiwi relative.However, the name was passed on under the shadow of tragedy.“Russell Kingan was a fighter pilot during the war and he visited us while on leave,” Ian recounted.“I would be about 15 and the first we.

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