Anne-Marie Trevelyan declined to rule out financial penalties linked to Rishi Sunak s election pledge to make teens spend a year in the military or do unpaid weekend community work.
The body of 25-year-old Clifford H. Strickland, a U.S. Army technician fifth grade from Fowler in southeastern Colorado, was officially identified five years after being exhumed from a Philippine cemetery, where he and other POWs had been reburied as unknown soldiers following the end of the war.
The Prime Minister said the policy, which will see 18-year-olds forced to either sign up to the military or undertake unpaid community work, would make society more cohesive .
The remains of 25-year-old Clifford H. Strickland, a U.S. Army technician 5th grade from Fowler in southeastern Colorado, will finally be returned home next month. He will be laid to rest in the same cemetery as his mother and father.
Next month, U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Clifford H. Strickland's remains will finally be returned home to Colorado, where they will be laid to rest in the same cemetery as his mother and father.