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Rik

Jan 28, 2017 - 7:14PM

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Nortons, Mate ! Only 'Best Grade' steel used.

Ron Pier

Jan 28, 2017 - 7:25PM

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Plus! Don't forget, that two people in those days probably amount to the weight of just one of most of us now

Ron 9 stone and a bit!!

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Rik

Jan 28, 2017 - 8:24PM

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I've just had a look at my Dad's service record. 9 stone 7lb when he enlisted in 1943 and 11 stone 6lb at discharge in 1947. Apparently post-war life in BAOR wasn't all bad.

There is no mention of what he weighed in The Netherlands in 1944/45.

I believe actually that the British Army had gone back to its normal peacetime activity of plenty of sport by 1947.