Get Me to the Church On Time ; It Is 50 Years Since National Service Ended in This Country. Here Raymond Coley, One of the Last Brummies to Be Called Up for Duty, Recalls How He Found Himself Torn Between Service to His Country... And a Desperate Race to Get to His Own Wedding Service!

Sunday Mercury › April 18, 2010

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THIS is the story of my time as a National Service man.

It was a strange time for me, as I was called up in 1960 as one of the last intakes to go in.

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Get Me to the Church On Time ; It Is 50 Years Since National Service Ended in This Country. Here Raymond Coley, One of the Last Brummies to Be Called Up for Duty, Recalls How He Found Himself Torn Between Service to His Country... And a Desperate Race to Get to His Own Wedding Service!

My 18th birthday was in 1957. I tried to find out if I was going to do my National Service, but they told me that as I was doing an apprenticeship,...

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