A campaign is being launched to help find “unsung heroes” who completed National Service ahead of the 60th anniversary of the end of the programme. The Royal British Legion (RBL) is launching AskDad and AskGrandad campaigns calling on families to help uncover lost stories from those who served between 1947 and 1963.
The last serviceman was demobbed from National Service on May 16 1963, and a ceremony is due to take place at the National Memorial Arboretum on the 60th anniversary.
National Service saw the conscription of more than two million men aged between 17 and 21, who will now be aged 80 to 97. No women were made to serve. A total of 395 were killed on active service and are remembered at the arboretum.
