Posted by Adam Quinan on May 03, 2003 at 17:40:55 from 66.185.85.76 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Bob Blackett posted by Jim McDowell on May 03, 2003 at 16:01:34:
A number of possibilities exist to account for the presumed birth dates of Peggy and Nancy.
Firstly Bob Blackett may have received a "Blighty" wound earlier in the war, one which would have brought him back to England from France to recover, and spent some part of his time at home. This happened to my father in 1944 and my great uncle and grandfather in 1915 and 1916. Alternatively he would probably have received some leave at intervals and being of the officer class, managed to get home for R&R.
Or perhaps he was a Navy officer (RNVR) on coastal defence and might have been stationed quite locally to Beckfoot.
Finally my grandmother was widowed just before WW1, her husband was considerably older than she was and during WW1 she was a nurse in France. In 1922 at the age of about 39 (she was apt to subtract years from her age) she married my grandfather and had her first and only child, my father, after a short but proper interval.