Sir, - I believe Kevin Myers underestimates the number of Irishmen who served in the British Forces during the 1939-45 conflict. In a letter to the London Times, General Sir Hubert Gough stated that he had been given confidential and trustworthy information that in the period August/September 1944 the official list of next of kin contained 165,000 addresses in Eire, as it was then. - Yours, etc., Major H. M. E. Grogan,
Administrator, The Royal British Legion, South Frederick Street, Dublin 2.