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From: "Bob Field" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Cant find
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:45:56 -0000
References: <001701c3a36d$51475d20$40b76351@oemcomputer> <002f01c3a388$aeaf2720$f6d3ae51@lovegrove>


Roger,

In your reply re. the aforementioned subject you stated that you thought
34yrs of age as a tad old for a man to have been killed in WW1. My
grandfather was born in September 1877 and killed in France by a sniper on
25 May 1915. That made him just over 37.5yrs of age.

Regards

Bob F


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Lovegrove" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Cant find


> June wrote
>
> > I have found a record of this person(PETER DOWNING) being killed on WW1
April
> 1917.
> >unfortunately it did'nt give age at death
>
> <snip>
>
> >I am assuming he was born around 1885-1890 time. please has anyone any
idea how
> I could find
> >information on him.regards.JUNE.
>
> I think the problem is with the assumption about his date of birth. If you
go
> into the 1901 census, and assume his age was 26 +/- 10 years then there is
> precisely one hit:
>
> Peter DOWNING, age 18, born London, Poplar, occupation carman. Civil
parish
> St.Botolph Without Aldgate.
>
> My only slight reservation about this is that it means he would have been
about
> 34 when he died, which is a touch older than I might have expected.
>
> HTH
> Regards
> Roger LOVEGROVE
>
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