Keith Fowler - Two goes at enlistment

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I enlisted in July 1941. I had two goes at enlistment. The first enlistment I was qualified as not fit to serve home or overseas abroad.

I was given a certificate by a Syrian sergeant and I was 18, I'd already put my age up to 19 and I said to him "What is this?" And he said, "You read it" and I read it and I said, "You got to be joking." And I tore it up and I've never forgotten his words. He said, "My boy, you may be sorry you ever did that." But I wasn't really.