Veterans and supporters in Belfast Credit: CLODAGH KILCOYNE/REUTERS SIR – Amid the anger over the collapse of charges against ex-soldiers, please remember Staff Sergeant Malcolm Banks, Royal Engineers, acting as infantry. In 1972, reacting to a blast bomb incident near the Short Strand, east Belfast, he rapidly arrived on the scene with his men, two minutes before the IRA ceasefire was to begin at midnight. He was killed: shot in the back. No follow-up by his men, sent to protect the public, could therefore take place, so they carried his body into the hall where he and they were stationed – in St James’s church – and laid him down. Like them and the church, he was a Catholic.