They also served

Too old or too unfit to fight..
My father, third from the left was too old, second from the left, the man who became my brother in law was still recovering from TB.
This  was one of the many First Aid parties dealing with air raid casualties during the bombing of Coventry and Birmingham.
Normally Redilady and I would have been at the Remembrance parade in the town centre but like so many others we had to stay home.