OLDEST SOLDIER IN ARMY
SUSSEX VETERAN’S CLAIM. The claim to be the oldest soldier in the British Army is made by 70-year-old Tom Scrase. of Burgess Hill, Sussex. He is a private in the Royal Sussex Regiment, and is serving in his third war. When he enlisted in a home defence unit just before the outbreak of the war he gave his age as 54, and the medical board passed him as Al. The authorities soon discovered that he was serving 52 years ago. One day on parade an officer said to him: “You must have been an extraordinary soldier when you were two years old."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1940, Page 2
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106OLDEST SOLDIER IN ARMY Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1940, Page 2
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