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20to me and others of the troops was that anyone who didn't get their haircut short before embarking on the boat was, at the order of the Sergt Major, seized and one of the others standing by with clippers would take a furrow off the hair of his head. This practice used to be the means of there coming up later to get the whole lot of it taken off as a chap would present a peculiar appearance coming along with a big lump out (off) of his hair. Some even went to the extent of shaving their head quite bald. This was a practice not so bad as it might appear for it enabled nothing of a parasitical nature to nest in the hair of the head and it also made the person fell a lot cooler on the head in the
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