Notice of Appeal

Unattested
"As a believer in socialism and as such reckonise [sic] the fact there is only one war - the class war - in which the working classes have any interest. I have no quarrel with the German working class, of whom I have known many, having been apprenticed under one and found them quite the equal of the English worker morally & otherwise. Before being apprenticed I was for two years a telegraph messenger and was looking forward to a career in the civil service. At the age of 16 I had to go before the P.O. doctor who turned me down as physically unfit. I was then examined by a private doctor who found nothing wrong except I was thin. The Medical Board at Mill Hill passed me for Garrison Duty abroad, the final doctor saying "You're thin, very thin." When I wanted a job under the State I was too thin, when the State wanted me it didn't matter."

17/8/16