Frederick Andrews emails: "This is a bit of a cheek but I am the local secretary for the Royal Engineers Association.

"I was talking to a colleague in Australia, who was trying to trace an Army contact of his who lived in Hove. I told him our local newspaper The Argus can do almost anything...

"Can we find this man? His name is Ian Culver."

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