Dear Editor,

A friend, Gordon Amand, forwarded the Ross Gazette of August 3rd to me. The reason being he knows I was present at the Founders day celebration at Rudhall House. I think it was in September 1940 when I was only four years old.

It is so vivid in my mind. I’ve always carried a wonderful mental picture of the very green grass at Rudhall House and the bright red uniforms of the Chelsea pensioners.

I do not know in what capacity my father was present, with my mother and myself. My father, Mr A?S Woodroffe was District manager of SWS Electricity for Ross And South Herefordshire. He was very involved with the Ross Home Guard. There may be someone else, perhaps older than me, who also remembers that event.

If so I would love to hear from them.

I know that, through his work installing electricity in the area, Dad knew Sir Sidney Clive, who was also present that day.

Mrs Barbara Freeman,

Stourbridge

Editor’s Note:?Sir Sidney Clive had a distinguished military career, he was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1933. Sir Clive retired from the army in 1934, as a Lieutenant General, and served as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps between 1934 and 1946 and as High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1939.

He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1937. Sir Clive was a Justice of the Peace and the Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire. He died on October 7th, 1959 in a fire at the family home, Perrystone Court, near Ross.