Bonar Colleano co-starred in The Way To The Stars, with Sir Michael Redgrave and Sir John Mills, as a 317 bombardier named Joe Frizzeli.

I can attest to his being as brash off-screen as his character portrayed in that same film.

In 1946, I was at the Monkey Puzzle swimming pool at Herstmonceux when he and his rowdy compatriots from the film world arrived and monopolised the pool to the exclusion of all present, much to their disgust.

The oft-heard saying "Bloody Yanks" became ever more meaningful.

-E A Clark, Eastbourne