During the past months it has been good in so many ways to relive those events leading up to the First World War, remembering afresh those of our loved ones who gave their lives in that great conflict 100 years ago.

In some respects this has overshadowed the fact that Wednesday, September 3, was the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. Unlike the first war there are those of us who can still vividly recall the dark days of 1939 and 1940, with the imminent threat of a German invasion and the Battle of Britain. For many years I had a spent bullet which landed on the roof beside me and of the terror during a night raid hearing machine gun fire directly over the house. Let us therefore also remember at this time those thousands of brave men and women who served on the Home Front, and on battlefields in Europe and across the world during those years.

Stanley H Jones, Horse Road.