Flat Feet and Service duty?

[Barry Churcher]

Hi Carman
My father tried to sign up in Sept. 39 with all of his relatives. He had flat feet and the Hasty P's told him to go home to the farm. My Uncle Guy Price couldn't get in the Hasty P's because of his bad teeth but he went to Hamilton and joined up there. Another uncle who lied to get into the first war and was gassed, lied about his age again and got into the second war. He got to England and they found out he was on a dissability pension from WWI. They made him a mail clerk and his photo is inside the cover of Farley Mowat's book The Regiment. Dad kept trying and they wouldn't take him. " you can't march!" He had started the dairy business in Bancroft so by 44 they told him he was vital.
He always hated those flat feet, and yes he passed them on to me.
Barry