National Service Conscripts -were you the last one?
15/03/2010
2010 marks the 50th Anniversary of the end of National Service and the National Service (RAF) Association are looking to commemorate this important date. As well as holding a huge re-union and Parade at the RAF Museum at Cosford on July 4th, the association is also seeking the last conscripted National Servicemen from all 3 Services in the hope that the British Legion will allow them to march at the head of a column in the November Remembrance Parade at the London Cenotaph – rather as last three surviving WWI veterans, Bill Stone, Harry Patch, and Henry Allingham did in 2008.
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