Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"Culturally, the armed forces were seen to be on a level pegging with a dustbin man!"
If you read "redcoat" - a history of the British Army - you'd find that that was the view of most families in England between 1600 and 1914
Don't forget the pre-war joke, that , 'a son would tell his mother he was a pianist in a brothel, rather than admit to being in the RAF'.