DAVID GRIGGS, membership secretary, British Element Trieste Force Association, writes:

Thanks to newspaper editors up and down the country, the British Element Trieste Force Association has recruited 40 new members during the past 20 months.

This association was formed in 2002 for those ex-servicemen who served in the Free Territory of Trieste from 1945 to 1954.

In addition to the veterans, whose average age is 86,

we welcome family members as associates, some of whom spent time in Trieste as children.

Photographs and memories are published in a quarterly magazine and further information is available on the association website. Regional meetings are held in various parts of the country.

The 2017 annual reunion will be in Cardiff over the weekend of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 17-19.

If you are interested in ­joining, please get in touch with me by phone on 01665 589289, by email at [email protected], or write to me at Suilven, Ellingham, Chathill, Northum­berland NE67 5HA.