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Originally Posted by Olde Crone
I am sure he would have had to show a birth certificate when he joined up at 16. How did he get around that?
OC
Edited to say - the council are being obstructive, surprise surprise. They will have a record of the people who brought him up as they employed them and that ought to lead to the names of the children they were responsible for.
OC
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His “adopted father” produced a “birth cert” in another name he’d never heard of. Said it was him. It also gave a date of birth with two dates (either side of midnight maybe”.
He says it looked dodgy and he doesn’t know how the army accepted it. At the moment through various house moves he’s misplaced it.
I can say that no person of that name was born at that time in England, Wales or Scotland