I WROTE to you a few months ago, trying to find two people I made friends with while in the Army at Bicester in 1952, Mervyn Buckingham and Valerie Dance.

I have received a letter from Mervyn but not from Valerie as yet.

I have received a letter from ‘an Oxford Mail reader’, telling me he or she thinks Valerie is married with three children, and seven grandchildren, and lives somewhere just outside Oxford, on the edge of the Cotswolds.

I would be grateful if this reader would send me her address – with the permission of Valerie and her husband, so that I can get in touch.

There is nothing sinister about this letter, as I am on my own now and don’t get out much due to arthritis. It would be nice to get in touch to know what she has been doing in the last 58 years.

Alternatively, pass this letter on to Valerie and ask her to write to me with her address.

LES HOWITT, Dalkeith Avenue, Alvaston, Derby, DE24 0BG