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    Contributing Member Gil Boyd's Avatar
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    Geoff,
    If you send me your email via PM's I'll send you his whole file.
    I know he came back from his medical absolutely devestated, and decided to get on a train and join a unit as far away as possible and ended up joining the Kings Liverpool Regiment, very sad, but I know what a small village mentality would have been like on his return for a young keen lad to emulate his peers in service, he must have been gutted and felt worthless!!
    In this day and age, the computer would have spotted his tries to re enter the Military system, but in those heady days of poor comms ie Telegrams and expensive phonecalls he simply slipped through the net!
    Good on yer RIP
    Last edited by Gil Boyd; 10-28-2018 at 10:17 AM.
    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA

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