Madam,

In his very informative history of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, John Valentine wrote that Edward Leslie Breese took over the grass breeding project. Unfortunately no date is given.

In 1947 I served in Germany under a Lieutenant E L Breese of Tregynon. I don’t know what his initials stood for. We all addressed him as “Sir”. I met him twice in Machynlleth after the war, the second time in 1960 when he accompanied a work colleague in to take a driving test. He was obviously working very locally. I would be interested to know if this was the same man.

Yours etc, Bruce McCay, Cefn Pennal, Machynlleth.

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