To hark back to my first attendance at the hospital. This was occasioned by the discovery that I was B1 and could not therefore go to a Field Artillery OCTU assuming I was OK in other respects. I went therefore for “upgrading” to class A1. This was successfully accomplished after five doctors had a merry half hour trying to discover why I had originally been graded B1. They were forced to the conclusion that I was in a state of almost indecently rude health. Bill Beadle on his medical for an OCTU March 1941 P.T. continues apace being one vital subject on which one can be damned sufficiently to be RTU’d. The ultimate ritual in this department is getting over the horse, which takes place with full ceremony before the Colonel at the end of the month. This ordeal does not worry me unduly but others less agile are already getting the wind up. The whole thing is very much out of proportion as witness the row of beds in the camp hospital, which are occupied by cadets who in their anxiety not to fail the feat, have rushed headlong at the sacred horse and broken their wrists in the process. November 1941 123 OCTU Catterick
Hi does anyone know what these medical terms mean on a service form. Mod edit: Post split and moved from Photo frame made in an Italian POW camp
