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December 03, 2007

His appointed rounds

Alec Ross, despatch rider in the Long Range Desert Group - Popski's Private Army, to be specific, misplaced a bag of personal letters and photos in the Egyptian desert. Just as well. It turns out Ross had something to hide. His sister explains.

Mrs Porter, 75, of Burnley, said: "I was stunned when I found out about this and it is just incredible the way the bag has come to light. I will be so pleased when I can actually hold the letters in my hand and feel something my mother actually wrote to Alec all those years ago.

"I just wish the bag had been found a few years earlier so that Alec could have been reunited with its contents. He would have been thrilled, if a little embarrassed about having had two girlfriends on the go."

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 3, 2007 06:53 AM