Two years ago, my colleagues Susie Passingham and Anna Nomikou and I made a film for Sussex University about women who served in the forces during the Second World War.
This week the film, A Force For Change, won the Best Documentary award in the 2001 Imperial War Museum Student Film Festival and is being shown daily at the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, South London.
We are writing to thank each of the nine ladies - all Sussex residents - who helped us to make the 25-minute film by allowing us to interview them on camera about their life during the war.
The interviews, complete with film crew and hot lights, certainly created havoc in their homes but the women were patient and helpful throughout, supplying tea and cakes beyond the call of duty.
We originally contacted the women through The Argus letters page and were amazed by the level of response.
We received literally hundreds of replies from interested local women.
-Steve Hill, Sussex University
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