Charity support for all troops
I WAS interested to see Colonel Bob Stewart’s article on the Territorial Army and the plans for its future (Yorkshire Post, May 4).
Readers will be pleased to know that ABF The Soldiers’ Charity (formerly called the Army Benevolent Fund), which is the Army’s central charity, supports ALL soldiers and ex-soldiers, regulars or Territorials, and their families, in time of need – for life.
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Hide AdIt is gratifying to know that in this aspect of the soldiers’ service at least, there is and never will be any distinction between the regular and reserve forces.
Carmen chameleon
From: Sheila Seymour, Northfield Court, Church Fenton, Tadcaster.
YOUR daily Horace & Doris cartoons provide much amusement. Indeed I save them to include in cards for ill friends.
However your intrepid cartoonist, Morris, has made an error (Yorkshire Post, May 3). Stand up and Fight comes from Carmen Jones. Oscar Hammerstein took Bizet’s opera, Carmen, giving it a new setting and different words.
Drain brain
From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire, Bradford.
WITH regard to the broad waters of the Humber dividing Hull and Grimsby, I did read somewhere that one fifth of the land surface of England drains into the Humber.