1. He had a distinguished war record and on demobilisation in 1945 he became an honorary colonel, Army Medical Service.

2. After his demobilisation from the Navy he was accepted by the railway authorities to train as a signalman.

3. Their demobilisation has been full of improvisation and imperfections.

4. A demobilisation and reintegration programme stopped at the end of last year as the money ran out and the agency involved was accused of corruption.

5. Demobilisation funded Attlee's NHS; by withdrawing from east of Suez, Wilson boosted pensions; the last droplets of the cold war's thawing helped even warrior Blair to rejuvenate the welfare state.

6. Saint Laurent was conscripted in the army and, after demobilisation, he opened his own couture house.