National Service

[peter nicholl]

By my reckoning we must be getting close to the 50th Anniversary of the last intake for National Sevice. So how old now would the youngest person be who went in the last intake?

[busyglen]

By my reckoning we must be getting close to the 50th Anniversary of the last intake for National Sevice. So how old now would the youngest person be who went in the last intake?

At a guess....59? My husband just missed it if I recall correctly.

Glenys

[keith9351]

National Service formally ended on 31 December 1960. The last man called up for National Service, Private Fred Turner of the Army Catering Corps, was discharged on 7 May 1963. However, the last National Serviceman was Lieutenant Richard Vaughan of the Royal Army Pay Corps, who was discharged six days later on 13 May 1963.

If 18 at call up you would be 65 now.