Question For All Ex National Servicemen

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
24/10/2008 17:50

This is a bone of contention with my wife but I would like to find the answer...

I was born 18th August 1940 & never receieved call up papers to attend for a medical ... A pal at the time was born 14th February 1939 & was called up in 1960 after finishing his apprenticeship... Does anyone know the cut off date of who got call up papers & who didn't ... People were still going in to do National Service in 1961 , these were people born before August 1940 & had been deferred...

Who has the distinction of being the youngest to be called up & the oldest not to receive call up papers

Harita

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
24/10/2008 18:04

I was in the RAF and at a station I was at in August 1962 there was a guy in our section and he was doing his National Service.



Take a look at the following:-



http://www.britisharmedforces.org/ns/nat_history.htm

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
24/10/2008 18:32

Thanks lovingcyprus

But to quote extract ...."The last intake of National Servicemen took place in 1960 and only the crisis surrounding the erection of the Berlin Wall delayed the end of conscription. The last National Serviceman, Second Lieutenant Richard Vaughan of the Royal Army Pay Corps, was demobbed on 16 May 1963."



This still doesn't answer what I would like to know as Second Lieutenant Richard Vaughan was obviously deferred & older than me...



Harita

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
24/10/2008 19:44

Come on guys , there must be a few privates & corporals here that did National Service...



Harita

Ossie


Joined: 19/01/2008
Posts: 311

Message Posted:
24/10/2008 20:23

Go to Wikipedia-Conscription in UK. Full details of National Service covered.

Doing NS was probably one of my most enjoyable times.

Ex Squaddie 1958-1960

The butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
24/10/2008 20:24

Hi Harita,



My first husband was born in November 1939 and he was in the first batch not to have to do National service. I remember when we were courting he was looking to change jobs but all the interviws ended because they said he would be called up soon but he never was.



The Butlers wife

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
24/10/2008 20:56

Harita,



I've seen it in writing that men born in 1940 and after would not generally be called up.

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
24/10/2008 22:14

Thanks Ossie

From Wikipedia

National Service formally ended on 31 December 1960, but those who had deferred service for reasons such as University studies or on compassionate or hardship grounds, still had to complete their National Service after this date. It had also previously been decided that only those born up to 1 September 1939 were to be called up.



1st September 1939 is the date I have been looking for which bears ot what The Butlers Wife states that her 1st husband was born in November 1939 & missed by 1 month... I missed by 11 months , more than I thought ...



Harita