i havent looked this up but i may have got it wrong ..think it was arthur askey in the ghost train and will haye in oh mr porter so my mistake and apologies for digressing
but give me will hay(note correct spelling) anytime
how can you not admire will hay?!! (who incidentally was also a celebrated astronomer)
I thought that "Thomas" was injured fairly early in the war, if the wound stripe was not introduced until 1916, would he have recieved it retrospectively Addickted?
Injured at The Somme P, in 1916, so would have had one - like my grandfather!
The Military Service Act of 27 January 1916 ensured that every British male subject who on 15 August 1915 was ordinarily resident in Great Britain and who had attained the age of 19 but was not yet 41 was conscripted.
That of course includes Ireland at the time.
Thanks for this. I still dont understand why there was a move late in the war for conscription in Ireland, if as you say there was already conscription.I was almost certain there was no conscription in Ireland and having referenced that paragon of correctness this morning, Wiki, it seems to confirm this. It just doesnt make sense - am I missing something here?
As said by Henry, Floyd.
Born in Ireland living in Ireland - no conscription (though hundreds of thousands volunteered for the British Army)
Born in Ireland living in England/Scotland/Wales - conscription.
Bring it back now and Dale Farm would be a greenfield site quicker than any injunction!
Cheers Remove your last sentence and it becomes clear. I live and learn. Why would the chauffeur (or any other non volunteer Irishman) have stayed in England, I wonder?
Another thing that ruined Downturn Abbey for me was the former footman who chirped in with ''I'm in the Army now''
Its almost as if he knew the Status Quo staple, or perhaps the earlier source of the haired ones hit, the South African born Dutch duo Rob and Ferdi Bolland who enjoyed success 5 years earlier in 1981.
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but give me will hay(note correct spelling) anytime
how can you not admire will hay?!! (who incidentally was also a celebrated astronomer)
The Goose Steps Out or maybe The Ghost of St Michaels? Hawtrey was also in Where's That Fire? with Hay.
A very young Peter Ustinov also played a schoolboy in The Goose Steps Out.
Injured at The Somme P, in 1916, so would have had one - like my grandfather!As said by Henry, Floyd.
Born in Ireland living in Ireland - no conscription (though hundreds of thousands volunteered for the British Army)
Born in Ireland living in England/Scotland/Wales - conscription.
Bring it back now and Dale Farm would be a greenfield site quicker than any injunction!
Remove your last sentence and it becomes clear.
I live and learn.
Why would the chauffeur (or any other non volunteer Irishman) have stayed in England, I wonder?
Money.
The route of all evil.
Another thing that ruined Downturn Abbey for me was the former footman who chirped in with ''I'm in the Army now''
Its almost as if he knew the Status Quo staple, or perhaps the earlier source of the haired ones hit, the South African born Dutch duo Rob and Ferdi Bolland who enjoyed success 5 years earlier in 1981.