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Published:16 August 2007

Wartime Local Defence Volunteers were more than Dad’s Army

• WITH respect to the Review feature ‘Explosive truths of the war’ (August 2).
My future brother-in-law was a highly-skilled toolmaker and engineer in World War Two, exempt from army through his work but, like most of us, was called to take part in Civil Defence.
I manned telephones in the Town Hall at the same time working full-time on war work. He was directed to Local Defence Volunteers, Dad’s Army, as a “gunner” on Hampstead Heath.
He would never watch the Dad’s Army television programme. He regarded it as an insult to him and his squad.
J JEAPES
Arran Walk, N1

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