- Contributed by
- S W JACKSON
- People in story:
- Sidney William Jackson
- Location of story:
- Malvern Gloustershire
- Background to story:
- Army
- Article ID:
- A3898894
- Contributed on:
- 15 April 2005
In 1939 a War Offfice Order stated that no one under the age of 19 years of age should serve in France.
As a result I was taken off the draft and sent to an holding unit which was Barkers Ground next door to The All English Tennis Ground in Wimbledon.
I should like to hear from any other members whom suffered a simerlar fate.
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