National service would need to be thought through properly if it is to be reintroduced successfully

From: Len Gallon, Keighley.

It was interesting to read the letter on 13/06 from Bob Swallow re national service. My own opinion is that this was a non-thought out idea in an attempt by the Tories to attract older voters. I did my national service 1955-1957 in the Royal Navy and would not have missed it for the world. The furthest away from home I’d ever been was probably Blackpool.

During this period we were also present when the Suez Crisis erupted and my memories from that time are watching the French battleship ‘Jean Bart’ Bombard Port Said plus picking up the dead body of an Egyptian Soldier found in the area and taking him out to sea for a dignified burial and collecting his personal belongings to be forwarded to the appropriate authorities.

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