Still cared for

SIR – You report (November 4) that a permanent memorial is to be built by the villagers of St-sever-calvados, Normandy, in their own time and at their expense. It is to remember the crew of a damaged RAF bomber that crashed on the boulangerie in 1941. The crew’s Commonwealth War Graves are in the cemetery.

We have often visited the cemetery and have left poppies. On one occasion we met an elderly local lady with flowers. She said: “Their mothers cannot do this for them so I do.”

The costly price of liberation is still appreciated.

Sapcote, Leicestershire