The day the Russians marched through Worthing

He's wondering if you remember them too '“ Russian soldiers singing gloriously as they marched through Worthing not long after the war.

"I cannot remember the exact date but at the time I was either about to leave school or had just started work with a local firm of commercial photographers," David says.

"But it would have been 1948 or 1949. At this time, a large number of Russian soldiers came to Worthing. It seems that they were recently liberated prisoners of war from Germany and were in transit to their own country.

"They marched from Worthing railway station in ragged columns singing wonderful male voice choir songs as they marched over Broadwater Bridge, down the main street to the pier, where they were dispersed and taken to be billetted in requisitioned houses along the seafront towards Ophir Road to the east."

For the full story in Hewitt's History Files, see the West Sussex Gazette issued dated April 23, 2008.