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Post by vulpine on Apr 16, 2012 9:35:00 GMT -5
Just wondering??? Did anyone have active service in all the grate British wars of the 20C I'm talking during the Boar wars (To be exact I'm talking the second boar war 1899–1902) WW1 (1914 -1918) and WW2 (1939-1945) So if the man (or lady) was born 1884 they would be 18 during the boar wars and when they came to be 65 (retirement) WW2 was almost over...
Second musing... Although I don't think it's possible can Koria (1950 I think) come within that life span?
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Post by Shostak(AWOL) on Apr 16, 2012 16:01:58 GMT -5
I had a great great step grandad that served in the second Boer war and the first world war. It's not a great stretch of the imagination to believe that he, or people like him served on the 'home front,' which isn't really active service but is probably as close as you would get at that age.
I don't know and rather doubt anyone serving in the proffesional army in all three wars though. Unless perhaps they were a general or staff officer by WWII, having served as line officers in the previous wars?
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Post by vulpine on Apr 16, 2012 17:11:36 GMT -5
That's what in thinking.. Very young in Boar and made it in WWI and a Hight up officer for WWII.
I know one of dads army was suppose to be in boar War, but that should count for two reasons:
1) I'm thinking more active service, as in out the the field
2) Dads army wasn't real
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Post by Hookah, S.C. on Apr 18, 2012 1:57:12 GMT -5
Churchill.
Sort of..
Served in the South African Light Horse in the Boer War
Served with the Grenadier Guards and the Royal Scots Fusiliers in WWI
Colonel of the Queens Hussars in 1941.
There well could be someone who served in all three of those wars (and the other wars that Britain engaged in at the time (3rd Anglo-Afghan etc)).
It would take some pouring over the records, but not impossible.
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