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Category: Under Age Soldiering
G.S.Taylor (GS) Typed copy of diary p29 (15.5.16) "What fools these recruiting officers must be, to think I have served 17 months, 10 1/2 of them in France, before attaining the military age but then I tried hard enough for 4 months before being enlisted and I should have thought them worse than fools had I not got in at all".
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Category: Under Age Soldiering
W.G.B.Shaw (GS) Recollections of Boy service with Royal Engineers. Not allowed overseas in 1914 as under age.
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Category: Under Age Soldiering
C.E.Thompson (GS) Group photo of wounded soldiers convalescing including, seated at right, an extremely youthful looking soldier.
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Category: Under Age Soldiering
J.Tait (GS) Enlisted aged 15 in 1915 - discharged shortly before Battle of the Somme when true age was discovered.
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Category: Under Age Soldiering
P. Scott (WF Recollections) 6th and 8th S.W. Borderers continued to remain in when discovered,
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Category: Under Age Soldiering
W.S. MacDonald (GS). Letter October 1915. Surprised to learn that experienced soldiers under the age of 19 were to be returned to the UK from the W/F as they were by now seasoned veterans.
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