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Old 12th Apr 2012, 23:21
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Plenty of lads joined up under age and died on the Western Front. A 'blind eye' was shown by the authorities, probably because your average working class youth of the time was so malnourished that they were unfit for active duty. I believe there was a bit of a scandal about it at the time.

I seem to remember a boy aged 15 who fiddled his age flying as a pilot on ops during WWII.
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