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Re: Wrong age on enlistment papers?
Posted by: Alan Pitts (ID *****6088) Date: June 30, 2009 at 05:37:06
In Reply to: Wrong age on enlistment papers? by dawn h curl of 26877

It depends.

You'll need to determine whether you are reading original documents or not. Carded records of course are not originals, and information could have been misread from the rolls.

Also, twenty-four would be a much more common age than forty-four. Most soldiers who are that old quickly become accustomed to jokes about their age.

People frequently match service records by name only. You seem to be on the right track based on your question about age and the effort you made to identify anyone else by the same name living in the area. If a pension application exists, you should have further detail on which to base your judgement.


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