AS Remembrance Day approaches, we ex-service people dutifully remember fallen comrades.
Some of us also remember those comrades who are still waiting for their wages.
Medical personnel and certain other specialists were under clear instructions that if captured they were to work under enemy directions.
International agreement specified their captors should pay them so their wages were stopped.
However, the enemy failed to pay up but after the war made reparationscalculated to include what should have been paid to prisoners-of-war under the Geneva Conventions.
Our greedy Treasury pocketed the lot and hoped everyone would forget what was owed to a minority. There are those of us who were not captured who do remember and still seethe with indignation at the way our comrades were treated.
JOHN HINTON, Worcester.
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