Preserving the past
Tommy Smith wrote a journal documenting his training in Canada.
In 2011 his son Peter had shared the journal in text format. With Peter’s permission this is the first of 69 pages.
Courtesy Peter Smith
When looked at retrospectively, my entry into His Majesties Forces was bizarre in the extreme. Its most outstanding feature was the difficulty which attended my many and complex approaches at every point, and which made it seem to me that I was attended by some guardian sprite who refused to let me leave my civilian life.
Firstly, some months before the war, I, like everyone else in the land, began to sort out the various forms of Services to be rendered to a country rallying her forces for a yet unhinted struggle.
I passed up the Fleet Air Arm, R.N.V.R. idea, as the 18 months of training would have unsettled me in my accountancy student…
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