As you will see from the correspondence on this date, 21st March was Leonard’s birthday. He was born on that date in 1897, so the laconic entry in his First World War diary in fact records his twentieth birthday, and his letter to Alec in 1962 records his sixty-fifth birthday and hence the arrival of his Old Age Pension – as it was known at the time, anyway. This is therefore, clearly, the 125th anniversary of his birth. Since this occasion will be celebrated nowhere else in the world, we are taking the timely opportunity of recording it here.