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Old 08-01-10, 12:54
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Default Oscar Horace Stanley Linkson

Name - Oscar Horace Stanley Linkson

Date and place of birth - 16/3/1888

Names of parents - William Robert Linkson and Rebecca Bartram

Date and place of baptism - none found

Details of each of his or her marriages - 14/8/1912 to Oliver May Fenton at Barnet Register Office

Occupation(s) - Professional Footballer

Military service - 17th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment aka The Footballers Battalion F/1723

Addresses where they lived -
1888 - East Barnet Road, New Barnet, Hertfordshire
1891 - as above
1901 - Wardens Villas, Lancaster Road, New Barnet, Hertfordshire
1911 - 72 Railway Road, Old Trafford, Manchester
1912 - Ferguson Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire
1913 - Bruce Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire
1914 - Dublin


Date, place and cause of death - 8/8/1916 Somme, France, missing in action during battle at Guillemont

Date and place of burial / cremation - body never found.

Details of will / administration of their estate - none

Memorial inscription - His name appears on the Thiepval Memorial, the War Memorial at St John's Church, Barnet and the memorial plaque for pupils of the Trent Boys School which is at Christ Church, Cockfosters
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Zoe, don't you have anyone with an ordinary occupation?!!
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yes - but I keep missing those weeks when I'm busy at work and I'm not allowed to post retrospectively.

Today I have taken a duvet day and am very bored.
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lol The thing I would like best in the whole world would be a duvet day!
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