Originally Posted by
Herod
When my service records arrived I was astounded to see the correspondence. There were even copies of air-mail letters my mother had written from Oz in the early sixties, inquiring as to the educational requirements for joining the RAF. I was only 15 at the time. As it happened, the RAF would not accept Oz qualifications,which resulted in home study and my being the only person in WA to sit GCE papers.
That could be quite amusing as a chap could learn what the powers that be
really thought of him - not what he thought they thought of him!