I found the article on Dunkirk in The Sentinel most interesting. The Grenadier Guardsman mentioned, Arthur Attfield, was my brother.

I was 14 at the time he was killed and was about to start work. Some years later, I went with my mother to the Dunkirk cemetery for the unveiling of the memorial there by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

It was a very sad occasion. I remember the piper playing the lament Flowers O' The Forest and a young woman beside me, with her son, tears streaming down her face. It was a very moving experience.

Three years later, in April 1943, my other brother, Charles, of the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, was killed in North Africa, aged 20.

I went with my mother to visit the cemetery at Medjez-el-Bab.

It was a very sad time, especially for my parents, having lost their two boys, leaving three girls at home. I am happy to say we three are all still alive and living locally.

I do enjoy The Sentinel. I find it so interesting.

-Elizabeth Lambourne (nee Attfield), Broadwater Street East, Worthing