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.
Journalist James Lansdale Hodson comments on the job-hunting experiences of a friend, an ex-Flight Lieutenant, DFC: "My pal from the RAF who is a solicitor has just drawn the dole for three months (£2 5s) for himself, wife and child. When the Labour exchange demurred and said they'd soon find him a job, he said: 'OK, you do it. Three hundred solicitors are looking for one.' They referred his case to headquarters. But he got his dole (17s 6d)."
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