Are you sure youre 19 asked the Sergeant with a waxed moustache' Get a note to prove it and Ill beli

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Are you sure youre 19? asked the Sergeant
with a waxed moustache.Get a note to prove it
and Ill believe you. Fred Cox was a sixteen
year old errand boy in a butchers shop in
Penarth Road, Cardiff. He got his pal to write
a note the next day and he was home and
dry Information taken from Cardiff (Pals)
Commercial The Welsh Regiment, edited by K.
Cooper and J.E. Evans
Image courtesy of Torfaen Museum Trust
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From Punch Magazine, 1915
Officer (to boy of thirteen, in his effort to
get taken on as a bugler, has given his age as
nineteen). Do you know where boys go who tell
lies?Applicant To The Front, Sir.
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A young soldier from the Welsh Regiment.
Picture courtesy of M. Williams
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A young unknown soldier of the Great War.
Picture courtesy of M. Williams
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Picture courtesy of M. Williams
Infantry Regiment Number 80 July, 1917
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German Youths being prepared for military service.
Picture courtesy of M. Williams
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