Surviving soldier
FURTHER to Christopher Sprague’s recent letter, the person whose name was erased from the Second World War memorial at Uppingham was R. H. (Roderick Hamilton) Purves, a captain in the RAMC (Letters, January 24). He had been reported as ‘missing, believed killed’, but the error went undetected until he himself visited the school and saw his name on the memorial.
His son James Hamilton Purves, who died recently, also went to Uppingham and was a fine cricketer captaining the XI in 1956 and later playing for the MCC and Essex. Mike Garrs (pupil, Uppingham School 1963–67), Lincolnshire
Dog days of summer
PERHAPS you could add dogs that leap into serene, elegant (no dogs allowed) garden fountains (). Luckily for me, Dr Sarah Furness, Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland, adores dogs in her gorgeous National Garden Scheme garden, even my very). Her spaniel Flossie, however, is clearly shocked by bad behaviour.
