Follow-up

I WAS amused by the story of the out-of-step Home Guard (Peterborough). My father, Tom Smith, was in the Home Guard in the Forties, and one of his duties was to guard the rail bridge over the river Conwy in North Wales. I have always wondered why it was thought that the enemy would attack an unlit railway bridge when they could cross the river by road. One dark night my father left a young recruit on guard duty while he went to make tea. returning with the kettle of water, he heard the young lad yell: ‘Halt, who goes there?’ Before my father could answer, a shot was fired right through the kettle! There were no mugs of tea that night, but thank goodness my father lived to tell the tale.

Gwen Whittle, Liverpool.