Les Clark Jnr from Burgess Hill talks about life in the school in the 1950's. His Book Run Boy Run! is available to buy from Amazon.
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00:00Writing this book has been one of the most difficult things I'd ever tried to do in my life.
00:06It tells the story of my time spent within the walls of an army training boarding school in the 1950s.
00:13My life began in that school at the age of 13 and the general plan was a simple one.
00:20With strict conditioning, intensive training and harsh discipline,
00:25those who ran the school would, in their own words, either make us or break us.
00:32Life in the British military was expected to be a courier.
00:37The name of the book is called Run Boy Run by Les Clark Jr.
00:43The reason why I've put Les Clark Jr. is because my father had exactly the same name as me
00:51and I didn't want him to benefit from the book.
00:54Laughter