Sir – Did you work at the Ordnance Depot in Bicester? If you did work there, you are one of the 135,000 soldiers, ATS or civilians who who laboured long and hard and with great skill and invention to make sure the what was needed to fight the war was in the right place at the right time.

Many stories have been told of the Second World War, but I don’t see in the bookshops the wider story of those who supplied the troops often at great personal danger. With your help I want to tell that story.

My later mother, who worked with my late father Major-General Williams who oversaw the construction of Bicester, left some wonderful scrapbooks which tell much of the tale. What would bring the story alive though, would be the words of those people who were there.

If you have anything written or have a story to tell, please contact the editor by email at philhwilliams@gmail.com and I will be only too happy to talk.

Phil Hamlyn Williams, 26 Lee Road, Lincoln LN2 4BH