T.A. & Royal Auxiliary Airforce Recruitment Literature, early 1960's

I have these various bits of recruitment literature dating to the early 1960's, some of it dated 1962. The rates of pay are quite interesting.

The reason that I have them is because around 10 years after being rejected for National Service, by the army in 1952, due to injuries received in WW2, my father thought that, perhaps he might be accepted for the T.A. or Royal Auxiliary Airforce. My father had already failed 2 medicals by army doctors in 1952 and graded as unfit for any military service and so why he thought that he might be wanted 10 years later I have no idea.

What I didn't know, until after he passed, is that my father had saved the leaflets that he was given, even though he wasn't wanted.

Signed by John Perfumo in one case. :D Ministers dating leggy young models; seems so charmingly passé now when what was it, 114 files on prominent pedophiles "sadly and unaccountably" went missing from the Home Office records?

Did your father have an unrealized desire to serve or was he as interested in the pay and bounties do you think? £150 for example was nothing to sneeze at in 1962. Purportedly about £3000 in 2022 terms, but that's clearly a questionable statistic when the average house in England is said to have cost about £3400 in 1965, as the average house today does not cost £68,000 there, anymore than it does here!

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Originally Posted by Surpmil

Did your father have an unrealized desire to serve or was he as interested in the pay and bounties do you think? £150 for example was nothing to sneeze at in 1962.

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My father was fully prepared to serve his country when he was called up in 1952 and was prepared and he expected to be sent to Korea. It's a credit to the army doctors who carried out the medicals on my father, in 1952, that they made the right decision, taking all factors into account including what today is called PTSD.

Fast forward about 10 years to the early 1960's and my father had got a job with the Automobile Association (AA) as a patrolman riding a BSA motorcycle and sidecar, known as a Road Service Outfit. At the time many of the AA patrolmen and staff were ex-army and some were also members of the T.A.. Until relatively recently there use to be some sort of "understanding/relationship" between the AA and the Military Police Reserves. In the early 1960's within the AA, according to my father, there was a "certain amount of encouragement" to join the Military Police Reserves and my father was attracted to the idea, not by the pay or the bounty but because he liked the idea of driving a Land Rover which he thought Military Police spent most of their time doing.

So in answer to your question it was while my father was with the AA that he got the idea about joining the T.A..

My father did serve as a volunteer ambulance driver for the post war Civil Defence Corps from the 1950's until it was disbanded in 1968.