WHILE looking through recent copies of the Worcester News under Today in History, on April 27, I noticed that you had an item under 1939: "Conscription introduced for the first time since First World War."
I was one of the first to be involved in this. I had to register at the nearest Unemployment Exchange if I was 20 between certain dates.
I actually registered at Burford, Oxon, as I was living at Idbury. The next thing we heard that I had to attend a medical exam at Oxford. Then I received instructions to report to Houndstone Camp near Yeovil on July 17, 1939, 10 days after my 21st birthday, for six months' training with a Search Light Training Regiment RA.
Pay 1s 6d per day, increased to 2s 0d per day on September 3 and so I carried on until I was demobbed in January 1946. Not bad - six months then turned into six-and-a-half years.
W F ACOCK,
Worcester.
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