This list misses one of the most important: 

In the final canon story "His Last Bow," Holmes has being doing espionage work, without Watson. He and Watson reunite (with Johnlock-filled delight - some Johnlockers think they're lying about the years apart and actually they retired to the country together ), but both have to go back into war service very soon. Holmes has a line about it being "the last quiet talk we shall ever have."

It was very savvy, even prescient, on Doyle's part, because the start of the war (WWI) was very much the end of an era. When you read mysteries written after WWI (such as Agatha Christie), the characters ages 40 and 50-something and up say all of the things about 20-somethings that "baby boomers" do today: they're careless, lazy, don't want to work, too casual about sex, etc. But it makes more sense when you realize that the older characters are adhering to Victorian/Edwardian times. And while King Edward's reign was a little "looser" than his mother's in some ways, WWI seems to have been the real "dividing line"

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