‘War hero Fred is not forgotten by us’

FURTHER to your article in the Post & Times on July 1, regarding Major Fred Davenport DSO,MC:

He is certainly not forgotten by my wife and myself. We have visited his grave several times laying a poppy cross there, the last being in 2016 when the photograph below was taken.

We used to attend the Menin Gate

ceremony every year around May 8, with a Royal British Legion group from the Staffordshire Moorlands.

My wife and I travelled in our own car, staying in Ypres, and over the years have visited many of the war graves and memorials 1914-1918, and 1939-1945, of the servicemen whose names are mostly on the Leek War Memorial, but some also from the villages, who were killed in Belgium, France, Holland and Germany leaving a poppy cross on each and taking a photograph.

We would spend a whole week at a time covering approximately eight War cemeteries a day.

We were indeed indebted to the late Chris Sheldon, the author of the books containing all the relevant information of where they were buried etc.

Geoffrey Hill Robinson Former chairman, Leek Royal British Legion , 2000-2014