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General => Armed Forces => World War Two => Topic started by: spenny on Friday 25 February 11 15:07 GMT (UK)
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My father didn't pass his medical in WW2 his mum told me he was grade 3 I would like to know what that means , he was a builders labourer and was sent to kettering to help build an areo drome for US airmen , as i never knew him to see a doctor and he lived till he was 87 I wonder what was wrong with him.
Thanks
Brenda
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The army wouldn't take anyone who was medically unfit for active service, a reasonably logical position, but they also had some quirky opinions as to what was unacceptable - so it may well have been the case that your father was fit enough for civilian type labour, but had some condition, e.g. flat feet, which would prevent him from serving as a front line soldier but allow him to serve in a construction battalion.
jds1949
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Thanks never thought of flat feet, now interested to know more about his work at the US air bace in Kettering found one intersting fact Clark Gable was stationed there
Brenda