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Pleater
My grandfather, born 1892 went to enlist, but he was so small - about 4ft 9in tall and very slightly built - that he was sent home.
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
Both My grandfathers were born 1901 and so missed the fighting of WW1, One did national service between the wars but came out to work on the railways looking after the track at that station shown and did so till 1966.
The Other joined up in 1919 (after apprenticeship in a shipyard in Glasgow), in the Royal Tank Corps, in 1939 he was given "exceptional permission to remain in the RTC" so that he fought in Europe and was Evacuated from Dunkirk (May 29th 1940), and then in the Deserts of Africa being RSM of the 7th Royal Tank regiment at the Siege of Tobruk. He remained in the RTR until 1953 and died 3 years later.
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