I would like to know if any older readers remember a film called The Flying Bomb. It was made at Elstree Film Studios some years ago. My late father was an extra in it with some others who had all been prisoners of war.

My father was a soldier in the First World War. He was in the trenches and saw all the horrors of war, including two of his best mates blown up by a mortar cannon. All he could say was "Why me?".

He was taken prisoner by the Germans and made to eat potato peelings. Before the war ended he was invalided out of the Army with shell shock and TB.

-Mrs I.R. Dennett-Thorpe, The Brow, Burgess Hill