KEENNESS TO SERVE
STRIKING EXAMPLES
APPEALS BY EMPLOYER
Two striking examples of keenness on the part of young men to join the forces were given in letters which came before the No. 4 Armed Forces Appeal Board today. In both cases appeals for exemption had been lodged by the employing company on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship.
"If I am made to stay at my work it will be like keeping me in gaol," wrote one of the reservists, "and I will hate my work and will not be happy until I am in the Army." In asking that his name be not published for his wife's sake, the. reservist added: "She might not understand and see things as I see them if she knew 1 was trying to get into the Army. When this war is over she will bp proud of me, and until then she would be well looked after, although it would be very hard for us to be separated for a while, but in a time like this the way I look at it no sacrifice is too great."
In the case of the other reservist it was stated that in his keenness to join the Air Force he had spent two months in hospital for correction of a foot defect and had then worn splints for two months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 75, 25 September 1941, Page 10
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227KEENNESS TO SERVE Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 75, 25 September 1941, Page 10
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