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15 October 2014
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Dad's Size Sevens

by Winnie

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Winnie
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John Albert (Jack)Fountain
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Initial Training
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Army
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A2017289
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11 November 2003

My father was 25 at the outbreak of the war and,was I think, in the first draft of conscripts.His initial training was with The Sherwood Foresters(He always maintained that one of his officers was the actor Richard Greene-later to play Robin Hood in the popular series in the fifties)
Anyway-having small feet(size 7)he had great trouble getting a pair of army boots to fit and was not much comforted by being told that he had to shoot seven Germans before getting a pair of size sevens.I think he did get some to fit before he went into action-I hope he did!!

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