So effective was this rough and ready but practical method of hand-Ting these eeruits that, within ten days of Mz. Eden's speech many of the sections were already starting work, This represented pretty good organization, for, as you will under stand, the names given in to. the police station had all to. be checked fy order to see first, whether they were men who were not required for other forms of military service or for civil defence, and secondly, as a security measure, that they were Hot. undesirable on other grounds. From the list of men enrolled the section leaders usually tried to rope in men who were living near them. This greatly facilitated the rapid development of the force.
'Here's my own experience, 1 was visited in my flat one evening by my neighbour, & school-master and the outs, a very ut filly years' of age. in France, where his gallantry as a sniper had won for him the Military: Medal, He had jed my name on the enrolment list wanted me to serve as a private in his section. 1 was told the time
was that, the place of the frst rally, That When 1 fall in with the section 1 found that it was almost entirely comosed of men who had seen some form of active service in the last wat Among them was the colonel whom have mentioned already,
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