WAY back in the summer you were good enough to print my letter requesting information of the Giles family from Mary Tavy. In fact, you even made a little item from it.

I am very pleased to tell you and your readers that the outcome from that item was fantastic. Within days of the paper being printed I received a phone call from the grandson of the couple who quasi-adopted my father Otto Hess.

He told me that his mother Rosemary had died some time ago but his father had written a family history of the Giles family and my father was included.

He put me in touch with his father, he also put me in touch with his uncle (Rosemary?s brother Norrie) who was also a schoolboy at the time my father was at the farm.

Both the Giles family and the Roberts family were fantastic. They have sent me photos of my father, a letter and some of his poems. Gwylym Roberts even had the poems translated from German to English for me.

And when my newly found cousins in America came over for a fact-finding visit a few weeks ago we were invited to he home of Gwylym and Wendy Roberts for Sunday lunch. Also at the lunch were Norrie and his wife, Tricia. What a lovely family they are. No wonder my father thought so much of them.

And would you believe that Gwylym and Wendy Roberts and Rosemary?s son now live in Sussex just 40 minutes drive from us. So thank you for printing my letter, you have helped me complete my search.

Sylvia Skinner

Evergreen

Hackhurst Lane, Lower Dicker

Hailsham, E Sussex