ON Saturday October 30, I was selling poppies at the McArthurGlen outlet near York, for the Fulford and District Branch, Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

I had been wearing the appropriate dress including my bar of six campaign medals and was later horrified to discover that I had lost them, probably in the car park. My first frantic call to the outlet proved negative but later when my son visited he was informed that the medals had been handed in to the security staff. He was able to bring them back to a greatly relieved parent.

Unfortunately the name and address of the kind person who found my medals and handed them in was not recorded.

May I express my heartfelt thanks to the lady or gentleman who recovered my medals, and to the security staff of McArthurGlen. It has restored my faith in the human race and saved me from a lot of leg-pulling from my fellow Legionnaires. Needless to say I have been far more careful with my medals in my subsequent spells of poppy selling.

A H Barton,

Broadway,

York.

Updated: 09:52 Wednesday, November 10, 2004