Re: RN College Dartmouth


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Posted by Allan_Lang on August 10, 2006 at 02:48:17 from 202.189.64.26 user Allan_Lang.

In Reply to: RN College Dartmouth posted by Joe Windsor on August 07, 2006 at 15:26:08:

To keep the maths simple, let's assume all the English stories dated from 1935. (I know that's wrong, I'm doing rough number-crunching here) The services disapproved of officers marrying young. I dimly remember that there were rules forbidding officers from marrying under a certain age - 25? So Dad was born in 1888. He was 13 in 1905 which is when he went to the new RN College in Dartmouth. Hmm. Then he married in 1915 age 27 (a war marriage) and John was born after the war.

On the publication dates of Jim Turner's book Mixed Moss and the Walker children's ages, the latest John can be born is July 1918, making him a war baby.

And as Mrs Walker tells John that she and Ted went camping before he was born, that rules out a wartime marriage too.

In my Walker prehistory Ted is about 5 years older, and actually "Old Navy" (pre Dartmouth) - going from Volunteer to Midshipman c.1900.
He goes to the Australia Station as a sub-lt on a cruiser in 1906, meets 18 year old Mary in Sydney c.1910, marries her (when he's c.27 - hey we agree on something). She follows him as a Navy wife when he is posted to the Med c.1913.




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