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National Service
National Service ended in 1963 when the last National Serviceman was demobbed. The last call up was in 1960. As you had to be 18 years old to be called up this would imply that the last group of people called were born in either 1941 or 1942. There was a provision to delay call up to 21 if you were in training or certain special jobs. A friend of mine insists that no one born after July 1939 was ever called up. Is he correct?
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I was born on 12.09.1939, and I did my National Service from July 1960 until July 1962. I had to register (at the local Labour Exchange) for National Service when I was about 18 or so. At the beginning of my NS I was 20 years old, and I celebrated my 21st birthday at a pub near the barracks where I was doing my basic training. I did not get any kind of deferment or other special treatment.
My Dad was born in feb 1930 and would have done NS between 1948/50. However he worked the angle and joined the merchant navy instead thus avoiding NS. I fairly sure that anyone born after Sept 1939 was not called up but I might be wrong on that,but not by much. I know for sure that anyone born from 1940 onwards was never called up. My mum was born in June 1941 and left school in 1956, she said nobody of her year group served.