The story of Margaret Dennis (Vive la North Yorkshire!, The Press, May 8) visiting the grave of her late father, mid-upper air gunner Laurence Jakeman, who was shot down, in his Lancaster during the last war and is buried with all but one of his crewmates, near the village of They-Sous-Montfort, is heart-warming enough.

However,I think the part of the story where it mentions that the graves are lovingly tended by the villagers in a gesture of thanks to those brave bomber-crewmen who were killed in their bomber is even more thought-provoking.

I am sure those good people of They-Sous-Montfort would be more than a little puzzled, and shocked, to discover that the men of Bomber Command have never had a medal awarded in recognition of their contribution to the defeat of Nazism in the Second World War.

This disgraceful state of affairs is still ongoing some 64 years after the cessation of hostilities and needs to be addressed with some considerable urgency as the numbers of these men dwindle ever more quickly as the years go by.

Successive Governments, from Winston Churchill’s wartime administration right through to the present day, have consistently refused to acknowledge the huge contribution Bomber Command made to defeating Nazi Germany, by having a medal struck and awarded to the men who flew night after night in terrifying conditions to take the war to the Germans.

It’s a shame people like the villagers of They-Sous-Montfort and others, in Holland and Belgium, who similarly tend the graves of fallen aircrew, don’t have a say in the matter, as I am quite sure there would have been a Bomber Command medal struck and awarded to these brave men 64 years ago.

Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge.