Posted by Alan Hakim on August 05, 2006 at 18:36:57 from 212.137.196.171 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: What the future held posted by Joe Windsor on August 01, 2006 at 16:20:47:
Going right back to Joe's start of this thread, we have AR's own list of ages in a note he made when writing PM. It is quoted in Amazon Publications' The Best of Childhood (p.303) and includes an item:The Picts and the Martyrs First fortnight of summer hols 1933.
R 10, T 12, S 14, J 15, D 13, D12, N 15, P 14
(The first D is probably Dorothea.)
If you add 6 years to those ages, you get to August 1939, a fortnight before war was declared, and everyone but Roger would be old enough to be called up for some form of war service. John and Nancy would be 21, and therefore adult, but I think you were liable for conscription from age 18.
Some of them might have gone to University, and would have been allowed to complete their degrees, even if in fewer years than in peacetime.