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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: off topic shocked and horrified
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:05:27 +0100
References: <42cd1e5c$0$9727$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au><20050707140136.6E2A58BCD41@smtp2.freeola.net><1120749568.88580.0@doris.uk.clara.net><1120823447.110954.118580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com><3j9qgpFp07obU1@individual.net> <42CFF994.AE30B8A5@which.net><dap3sv$m9c$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>


In article <dap3sv$m9c$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, jkm <
reeserve.co.uk> writes
>
>"S Viemeister" wrote
>>>
>>> Seems logical if, as I was told by my mother, the identity-card numbers
>>> we had during WWII were adopted as the NHS numbers in '48.
>>>
>> I don't have my old ID card to hand (it's packed away with old passports,
>> etc), but I'm sure I remember it having the same number as my NHS card.

This was so for normal civilians. And the ID number (which for once I
could remember, unlike my PIN number) was used until they went over to
multi-nega=long and totally unmemorable numbers.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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