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Interview with James Burdin

James Burdin went at Hutton Grammar School and worked on radio repair and sales. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force but had to wait and joined the Local Defence Volunteers instead. He did some rifle practice, general infantry training and…

Tags: civil defence; demobilisation; Gneisenau; Home Guard; military living conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); radar; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Ruislip; recruitment; sanitation; Scharnhorst; training

Sergeant James R Burdin's service and release book

RAF service and release book, listing the terms and conditions of his leaving the RAF on the 31st of May 1946, as well as assessment of character and statement of aptitude and qualities., Includes instructions covering the event of re-mobilisation.

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