I have been in e-mail correspondence with my m-i-l's cousin (whose sister and brother in law started their family tree before internet) and was just thinking I ought to contact her with more info I've found, when she sent me an e-mail.
It's an army document, a letter dated 6 September 1916 stating that her grandfather (the notorious Charles Albert McCarthy aka Charles Albert Carter) had been in with his son's birth certificate, which showed that the lad wasn't 17 and would therefore have to be discharged from the army!
And even better, a handwritten letter by Charles Albert saying "as I have three sons in the army I do not think it right that a boy of 16 should go, I have put £2000 in the war loan and if I could get a man to manage my business I would join up myself" He was 50 years old at the time!
It's an army document, a letter dated 6 September 1916 stating that her grandfather (the notorious Charles Albert McCarthy aka Charles Albert Carter) had been in with his son's birth certificate, which showed that the lad wasn't 17 and would therefore have to be discharged from the army!
And even better, a handwritten letter by Charles Albert saying "as I have three sons in the army I do not think it right that a boy of 16 should go, I have put £2000 in the war loan and if I could get a man to manage my business I would join up myself" He was 50 years old at the time!
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