Many years ago I found an old pocket sized Bible which was inscribed "To Len with dearest love from Nancy - The Lord watch between thee and me when we are absent one from another." [So many people don't know the whole context of this quote from a story of two back-stabbing men who couldn't trust each other!] On the facing page Len had written "Lt L R Chandler" and over, on the next two pages, a list of his raids on the border town of Metz during the First World War, culminating with his being shot down and the entry "Machine hit in 3 places by anti-aircraft fire - top, fin and petrol tanks. Left plane." Coincidentally, there would have been no further room for any more entries. I looked up Len and found he'd survived the war and been demobbed in 1919 in Grays, Essex. I wrote to the local paper appealing for his relatives to contact me, which they did, and I posted it to them. I hope they received it OK as they never let me know.
