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From: "Alan Taylor" <>
Subject: RE: [WW1] young soldier
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:36:37 +0100
In-Reply-To: <000701c59d5a$d7b359c0$191857cb@internet>


Hi,
Young boy soldiers is not a new thing, drummer boys etc joined from around age
12, marching and firing under attack could easily be done to the drum beat of a
drummer boy, it saved wasting a man soldier to drum when he could be using a
weapon.
Alan T... {East Midlands UK}

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> thanks david
>
> he was discharged due to effects of malaria, then there was a
> dispute over
> his pension. would he have been sent to boer war at 15
> karen
>

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