On the day of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, I wore a silver medallion which was presented to me (as to all children of British residents in Haifa in the then British Mandate of Palestine) to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary on May 6, 1935.

On the obverse, it depicts Their Majesties in profile and, on the reverse, Windsor Castle.

That morning, we attended a review of the troops at Peninsula Barracks at the foot of Mount Carmel, taken on behalf of His Majesty by the district commissioner, Edward Keith-Roach.

I wore a white silk pique skirt and a white crepe silk blouse, embroidered by my mother at the neck and cuffs in a pattern of red and blue.

So, for Golden Jubilee day, I wore a white T-shirt embroidered in a similar pattern with the very coloured threads used by my mother, having inherited her embroidery cottons.

On the afternoon of that May 6, a party for the British children was held aboard the cruiser HMS Despatch, which had put into harbour and was dressed for the occasion.

The harbour had only been completed and officially opened 18 months previously.

As the tenders bearing the children pulled away from the ship at the end of the festivities, the crew lined up on deck to sing Rule Britannia and I promised myself that every time I heard it in the future,

I would remember that moment. Sixty-seven years on, I remain true to the thought. I suppose this is what is called continuity.

-G J Price, Valley Drive, Brighton