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You mean "Keep it in your pants!", I assume.
Well, not everybody who joined the army - an army - was a choir boy or a hero. This morning's news here [Ontario, Canada] had a story on a trainee pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force who has been arrested for allegedly running an 'international weapons sale business', apparently selling guns, some modified into, I assume, restricted auto or semi-auto status.
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Wow - intriguing what that young lad had to live through in his short life.
Some of it obviously self-inflicted (well, you know what I mean) but mostly the price that was to be paid back then in service of the Queen and Empire.
Having lived in Huddersfield myself, many years ago, I wonder what Thomas thought of the exotic places he visited before returning home.
Thanks for sharing all of your excellent and detailed research.
Matthew
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