BURSTDestroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placement
Angela Blazy-O’Reilly reports that the war service of her mother was not recognised for extra pension rights, as “no records were available for [the Women’s Royal Army Corps] in India” (Letters, 11 May). I wonder if this was due to Operation Legacy, which mandated the destruction or hiding of colonial documents before Britain’s withdrawal from colonised countries. A sort of imperial “bonfire of the atrocities”, such as records of the Bengal famine in 1943.
Denis Jackson
Glasgow
• My son, like me, has several Sheffield United shirts, which he wears with pride. The other day he asked me to buy him a French national shirt with “Mbappé 10” printed on the back (Letters, 7 May). Putting the cost (about £100) to one side for a moment, I’m genuinely unsure of what to do. Get him the shirt for Christmas, or send him to an orphanage?
Mark Redhead
Oxford