MEMORIES
OF A NATIONAL SERVICEMAN
by
Trevor Sidaway
ROYAL
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
The normal
call-up age, for National Service, was eighteen, a relatively small number had
their
call-up deferred for several years
in order to complete their apprenticeship and College/University
studies
These deferred groups,
whose ages ranged from twenty-one to twenty-five, were called up in
separate intakes from the eighteen year olds and were trained in
separate "mature" platoons
They then went on for specialised training and
in this way the Military took advantage of a pool of
potentially well qualified and skilled
young men covering all the trades and
professions
Better
than the Bahamas
Playing
trains with Prince Charles and Princess Anne
More
about the Models
Resting
in Tangier at the EL Farhar
Football
in Gibraltar (Part one)
Football
in Gibraltar (Part two)
Keeping
the Laundry going and other Sports
(National Service
haunts revisited after 56 years)
Link to "Black
Country Stories"
Call-up at 21
email
me trevor_sidaway@hotmail.com