One-Two-Three-One!: (A Nutter's Account of National Service)

It was a time before TVs and bathrooms, before supermarkets and central heating, before 'you never had it so good!' In Korea, there was a war on, while back in Britain there were men in uniform everywhere. Many of these were conscripts - National Servicemen enduring two years of bone-shaking drill, square-bashing and weapons training. It was a time when everything was done in numbers. Or so it seemed to the motley intake of voteless, semi-skilled, sexually inexperienced teenagers on the same draft as Gunner Hall in 1952.