SIR — The 70th anniversary of VJ Day is being commemorated in London with full official ceremony, but for us westerners who cannot easily travel, there is instead the customary commemoration on next Saturday (August 15) by the local contingent of the Burma and Pacific Star, strongly supported by the Royal British Legion, at the Burma Memorial in Blenheim Gardens, Minehead.

We extend a cordial invitation to anyone, residents or visitors, who would like to join in this tribute to the once-forgotten but now gratefully remembered 14th Army, along with the other forces who contributed to victory (and not least, any other veterans of Burma who have never wanted to join any association but still wear their Star with pride).

Assembly is at 10.30am, and the tribute consists of a short reading, a poem written by a 14th Army soldier, a reading from John Bunyan’s ‘Passing of Mr Valiant’, and, of course, a laying of the wreath or wreaths, the Last Post, Silence and Reveille and the Kohima Epitaph, all complete by a few minutes after 11am - after which, need I say, everyone can enjoy the good things offered by that day’s Party in the Park!

A W G Court,

Williton.