United Kingdom - Ireland

Jun. 27, 1953 - Army Calls Up A Blind Boy: An Army doctor, checking over a batch of new National Service men at the R.O.A.C. depot at Black down, Aldershot, stared hard at Private Terence Morris, aged 18, just in from Birmingham. You look a bit short-sighted, he said I am, sir. Nearly blind, as a matter of fact, said Private Morris. Next week, the War Office said last night, Private Morris will be discharged. And the three civilian doctors attached to the Ministry of Labour at Birmingham, where Private Morris was passed as fit for the Army, will be questioned. Photo shows Private Morris, the half-blind man who was called up for Army service

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