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Old 05-07-2009, 14:04   #20
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Re: Oswaldtwistle War Memorial

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Originally Posted by Gayle View Post
I'm not questioning your work - in fact the opposite, on many, many occasions I have called you the expert in this subject.

If you contacted the council and got the run around then that's a shame because I knew that we'd get to this point. There's about 300 names on that memorial and as far as I'm concerned every single one of them could be wrong - I personally have no way of knowing which ones are right and which ones are wrong.

Yes, I could go and check in the library etc but like you pointed out - you've been doing this for 26 years, I'm more likely to make a mistake or not get anywhere if I started checking.

I honestly don't know what the answer is to this now!
Here is proof of one of their mistakes, neither they or the tripe dreser could find him in the Commonwealth War Graves, so they pick one that has no family information which they think can't be contested.

George Booth survived 10 months in hospital and went back to the front and was discharged from the army in 1919, his address on discharge 10 Mason St. Check, Check and Check again. Thats what I do, thats why it takes me a long time, I hate mistakes.
Why did'nt you go round to Roy Lockwood and tell him, before the list was sent for engraving.
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