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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 2734972" data-attributes="member: 85785">Mrs L 's great uncle was gassed but didn't survive the first world war.part two,my dad, had double malaria and was sent home in 1946.of course medically unfit for the army and most of the jobs he applied for.he did a year at SMM, but he became ill and during the next few years in and out of hospital.my mum meanwhile worked full time in a sweet factory.My dad then in the fifties, started working with the civil defence as a driving instructor at first.I remember a Christmas party, vaguely in the town hall.Eventually, early sixties he applied for an office job with the local borough council.Where he stayed until his early death in 1985.Did the war contribute to his health and mental issues?Without doubt.Into his fifties, he became a bowls referee, because he had to stop playing.He was on serious meds for all his life.We were lucky he lived so long. Lucky he came through the war at all.He was so proud to be a chindit.But he paid the price for it.</blockquote>

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