Such a sad war

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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 21,619 Send Message	Ladylol Pusser Cat	Report	16 Mar 2010 17:45
	letter sent to my g grandmother from the war office, and by finding this on anc%stry it gave me a missing link to a brickwall. It seems this woman was sent a letter sayin her husband had been killed in action in 1916 in france, but she then had a letter of her husband a week or so later from him, they realised they had mistook her husband for a man with the same name, but then a week later her husband actually died carrying an injured man on a stretcher what crazy emotions must have been going through her mind, her 1st son was born 1916 but he never got to see him xx
Member Since: August 2006 Posts: 13,135 Send Message	UzziAndHerDogs	Report	16 Mar 2010 17:55
	Puss all wars are sad. So many sweathearts married at that time, who may or not have married later. So many children were born not knowing their fathers. How devasting tho' to have gone thro' being told your husband was KIA find him alive to lose him again so soon afterwards.
	Researching: Turner, Staniforth in Beighton and Ridgeway Sproat in Sheffield and Cumbria
Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 21,619 Send Message	Ladylol Pusser Cat	Report	16 Mar 2010 18:06
	yes the pain twice in such a short time, i only found it by chance too both men had same name and same age,the address gave me clues to a lot of info which was good xx