Sir – I’ve just finished reading Jeff Clements’s remarkable book Remembered, the stories of the men on the war memorials of Witney, Crawley and Hailey.
It was very moving to find out just what happened to the local men who died in the Great War. I warmly and highly recommend it to readers interested in local history.
However, I was concerned to read in one of his appendices that the only Witney woman to serve and die in the war, Lucy Harris, a member of the Women’s Royal Air Force, is not remembered on the town’s memorial, nor is she on the memorial plaque in St Mary’s.
Surely this is an oversight to be corrected as soon as possible.
Phil Bloomfield, Woodstock Road, Witney
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