This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
"Officers are queuing for £500 a year," suggests today's People, as it interviews the Deputy Director of the Officers' Association at the British Legion:
The queue has spread to the Situations Wanted columns of the newspapers. Faster demobilisation has meant more applicants than jobs. The company commanders, the squadron leaders and the destroyer commanders are looking at industry and thinking in terms of £500 a year again ...
"We have trouble fitting in the men of forty-five and fifty, particularly ex-regular officers ... some officers are difficult to place. They are adaptable, willing to work, but they have to realise that there is a lot of difference in civilian conditions."
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