19 JANUARY 1985, Page 21

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Sir: Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Hor- rocks KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, after a distinguished record in two world wars, became, while Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, a much admired television personality. So far as I know he never interviewed Mrs Thatcher on television and was not robbed as Sir Robin Day was (temporarily) of his Knighthood. Your Portrait of the week (12 January) implied otherwise when recording the death of this splendid old soldier and what is more Horrocks was demoted by your journal from Lieutenant-General to Major- General. Let us leave the re-writing of history to the Kremlin. C. A . A . Kilmister

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