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National Service Fifty Years Ago - Life of a Medical Conscript in West Africa (Hardcover)
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National Service Fifty Years Ago - Life of a Medical Conscript in West Africa (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 330
You Save R99 (16%)
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Between 1946 and 1962, following World War II (1939-45), for the
first time in peace-time Britain, conscription was introduced as a
partial solution to Churchill's 'cold war' strategy. While the
majority of conscripts served their two-years within the UK or
Europe, a minority was sent to overseas locations, some to where
actual fighting was taking place. The author of this book was based
in Nigeria for most of his years of National Service, more
specifically at Yaba, a suburb of Lagos. This narrative, which took
place immediately after Nigerian independence from colonial rule,
is Corps officer, serving in the Royal Nigerian Army in newly
independent Nigeria. Apart from medical duties, he acquired a great
deal of information on the Atlantic slave trade, much of which was
centred on the Nigerian coast.
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