by Blitzkid » Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:41 am
Yes, most had a wife, children that helped them to settle again, and we had Old comrade meetings to help us help one another when there was trouble, but many were given useless gongs, little pension, and their old job returned, but there were thousands that could not do that job, wounded etc, and they had no one to turn to. I knew many in that situation, broken marriages, trained to kill for five years, but no training for a civilian life. Some found it hard to regain civil life again, as did I..you got in a argument, a fight and all your skills you now had came into force. In the middle east sports, Montgomery complained it was always the same specialised units that won all the prizes, etc., yes an awkward time all round, disbanded SAS, new weapons for old, problems, deaths, accidents, but you will find little in books wrote about it.