SIR — Both Thelma Frost and J B M Davis (Your Letters April 15) make reference to the world wars as justification for their eagerness for the UK to withdraw from the EU.

They plainly require reminding that Winston Churchill, our leader during the second of those two wars, saw the need for us to be a leading member of a united Europe.

In 1948 he said: “We cannot aim at anything less than the union of Europe as a whole, and we look forward with confidence to the day when that union will be achieved.” 

So please let’s not besmirch the memory of those who fought in both world wars by implying that a vote to stay in the EU is an insult to their sacrifice.

By and large, we co-operate and work closely with our EU colleagues and that, surely, is the real testimony to that sacrifice.

Anthony Jones,

West Park,