SIR – Reading teacher Sam Gardner’s horror of primary school children in Bradford celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (Letters, January 18) reminds me of the dim, distant past as a primary school child at a boarding school in Malaya of being given flags to wave on the accession of Queen Elizabeth II.
I well remember my sixth birthday there and the gifts I received from my parents.
We had an army camp next to the school in the Cameron Highlands as the communists were trying to take Malaya, as it was known then, but were repulsed by the British Army in time.
Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire
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