1921 Census - so sad...

[Merry]

I saw this page posted up by FMP on FB, but there was no info with it or comments.

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...68%2F0231%2F03

For those of you who can't access it, we have a young family, husband Arthur Vince is a 28 years old tax officer working for the Inland Revenue. He has a wife, Gladys, and young son Robert (Bobby) aged 16 months. Dad clearly has a sense of humour, saying he was born in "Appy Hampstead". He also made a prediction by drawing a cartoon on the census page of some officials sitting around a table with a document on it reading "War 1936" and a comment alongside suggesting the 'cannon fodder' for the next war (predicted as 1936) would be found on the 1921 census (with a long row of exclamation marks).

Of course, I had to look and see what happened next.... In 1939 Arthur had risen to Senior Tax Inspector and his son was still at home, now an Invoice clerk.

Unfortunately his father's prediction would come true, as Robert became that 'cannon fodder' in 1945.

From CWGC:

LANCE BOMBARDIER ROBERT STANLEY VINCE

Service Number: 974108 Royal Artillery, 89 Bty., 23 Field Regt.

Date of Death 18 April 1945 Age 25

Buried or commemorated at FAENZA WAR CEMETERY VII. D. 14. Italy

Son of Arthur and Gladys Vince, of Mill Hill, Middlesex.
Personal Inscription

OUR BELOVED SON DIED IN ACTION AT THE FINAL HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN OF PEACE

How awful. I wonder if Arthur remembered what he wrote in 1921? Arthur passed away less than three years later.