Reading Nostalgia on October 3, Brian Brennan spotted his father pictured among the members of the Carpenders Park platoon of the Home Guard.

Mr Brennan, from Bowring Green, South Oxhey, said: “We lived at Watford Heath. We were quite a big family, four boys and one girl. My brothers and I are eternally grateful to ‘Dad’s Army’ for keeping us warm in bed at night, thanks to dad’s greatcoat which we had on our bed as an extra blanket during the war and for years afterwards. He used to keep his rifle in the wardrobe. He was probably told your rifle is your best friend, as I was also told during National Service in the Far East with the East Anglian Regiment (1960-1962), which is now the Royal Anglian Regiment. Three years after demob I was back in uniform with the Royal Mail, where I stayed for 37 years, retiring in 2002.”

Similarly, Denise Guck also spotted her father Dennis among the members of the Carpenders Park platoon.

Miss Guck, of Alva Way, Carpenders Park, said: “My dad Dennis was standing seventh from the left on the back row. Our neighbour Mr Thomas (fourth from the left on the middle row) had served in World War One and had been in the battle at Arras.

“He survived the war and named his bungalow in Alva Way ‘Arras’. Horrace Howard, another neighbour, was also in the photograph sixth from the left on the middle row.

“My father Dennis worked in the Power House at Kodak Harrow as a maintenance engineer.

“He wasn’t in the war as he had a reserved occupation. It was imperative that the factory, then employing thousands, was kept going for the war effort. My dad often had to work over the Christmas and Easter holidays overhauling the engines, turbines and generators while the factory ‘shut down’.

“My father loved Kodak and when he retired at 65, having worked in the same place since he was 23. He really missed the job.

“He died in 1994 aged 81. My mother died in 2007 aged 96.

“I was born in 1939, three months after the war broke out. I vaguely remember my dad in his uniform. Of course, I didn’t know or understand what the Home Guard men were protecting but in hindsight I suppose they were connected to Bentley Priory, Moor Park Mansion or Northwood.

“I remember the barn opposite Carpenders Avenue entrance in one of Braziers fields. We had concerts and dances there. I think the barn was demolished in the 1950s.”