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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Why do you think the mistakes were made in the first instance, particularly in relation to the listing of names on memorials in the 1920's?
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Those who compiled the original 1922 Roll of Honour, and the Greater Accrington Roll of Honour, mainly from lists compiled by the Accrington Observer in 1918, thats why some men are named twice, if he is recorded as John Thomas Bloggs wounded in one of the issues, and then later as Thomas Bloggs was killed in action, he gets one under each of the Christian names.
Then you've got the type setters in the printing shop trying to read some newspaper reporters scribblings,
and so it goes on and on and on.
Retlaw