Posted by Adam Quinan on September 06, 2006 at 12:19:02 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Bob & his history posted by Prue Eckett on September 06, 2006 at 10:37:41:
I think to say that a "generation" had "pretty much disappeared" as a result of WW1 is carrying it a bit far. Britain was not a country populated solely by old men, women and children in 1930. British military deaths numbered 703,000 during the whole war. While the carnage is horrendous and there many additional deaths from the influenza epidemic which were also concentrated in that age range, the population of Britain in 1911 was about 42 million people, by 1921 it had risen to 44 million and by 1931 it was 46 million.
The age distribution was undoubtedly affected by the casualties but surely not enough to depopulate an area like the Lakes unless there were other factors like the continuing decline of agricultural employment and the migration to the cities for work.