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My grandfather tried to enlist in 1914 but was turned down owing to a previous cricket injury to his wrist which resulted in a visible distortion of the prominent bone at the base of his wrist. There was nothing wrong with his dexterity - he was a plumber, and went on to work on aircraft production, thus escaping being called up later when conditions for enlistment were relaxed, as he was in a reserved occupation.
Bumstead - London, Suffolk
Plant, Woolnough, Wase, Suffolk
Flexney, Godfrey, Burson, Hobby - Oxfordshire
Street, Mitchell - Gloucestershire
Horwood, Heale Drew - Bristol
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Horler, Heale, Emery, Clavey, Mogg, - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
McLennan, Mackintosh - Inverness
Williams, Jones - Angelsey & Caernarvon
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