IN REPLY to Muriel Bower, Mr Butler (Clem) had a family of 11: Clem, his wife, William (Billy), Kathleen (Cassie), Marjorie, Ellen, Rose, Beattie (USA), another (lady – USA), Rhoda and Louie.

Clara in the picture was Clem’s second wife with whom he had no children. His first wife died many years earlier.

In late WW2, three daughters married Americans. Two were soldiers and one was a civilian working at his mother’s canteen at Barton Stacey army camp.

After the war, two sisters settled in the USA never to return, but Ellen could not adjust and returned to Andover with her ex-soldier husband and family shortly after emigrating.

Cassie Field is still alive, at Clifford House, aged 95.

Many locals would know Cassie Field; there is no doubt about that. She and her husband and family were forced to move from living in a bus in a field to a council house at Nestor Close about 1954.

From being a travelling gypsy everyone on the estate liked her. She was kind to children and her house was open to any of the children on the estate any time.

She loved the children and they loved her, myself, my brothers and sisters included.

Derek Weeks, Martin Way, Andover