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Sidney William Gidley's Registration Card for National Service

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posted on 2024-06-05, 18:21 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

He was called to register in December 1942 by the Allocation Officer. Although he passed as Grade 1, he spent the war in a reserved occupation, based at Southall Gas Works in London in the By-Products Department, and was responsible for tar spraying on the roads.

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Sidney Gidley's Registration for National Service card

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Sidney William Gidley (1914-2001).

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Judith Thomas

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