Peter Newband still remembers the post-war Christmas of 1946 when the father he had only just met gave him a beautiful handmade elephant toy.
He was just four when his father, Thomas Henry Newband, came back after serving in Iraq during the Second World War.
Thomas, known as Harry, had been in hospital in Iraq with emphysema for nearly a year and during that time he carefully stitched an elephant out of scraps of leather for his son.
