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Armed Forces / Re: Age to join the Navy
« on: Saturday 15 March 25 05:50 GMT (UK)  »
HMac, Thank you for your input.  I had not realised before that cooks were taken on at an older age.  He was a cooks assistant - hopefully the cook could produce a good meal as in the time I knew him as my grandfather he could not boil water????  Also he could not swim!!!!  He went down a couple of times in ships and he always said that others could see his blonde hair bobbing on the water and that they pulled him out by his hair!!   He was at the landing of Gallipoli close enough for people on his ship being shot. He offered to man a cutter but the captain insisted he stay on board and help bandage the wounded and make lots of cups of tea -- good old English tea, fixes everything!!

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Armed Forces / Re: Age to join the Navy
« on: Saturday 15 March 25 05:44 GMT (UK)  »
KGarrard, Thanks for your help.  Can't believe how young some of them were when they went to sea.  I now see that my grandfather was about 22 years of age and I believe he had to be older to be a cook.  I am now leaning on the idea that he must have heard rumblings about war coming and decided to join up quickly.  I believe that London at the time had unemployment and many were starving.  Maybe he decided that it would be a guaranteed feed!!!  His girlfriend (later wife) also served at the Woolwich Arsenal - perhaps they decided to both do their bit? 

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Armed Forces / Re: Age to join the Navy
« on: Saturday 15 March 25 05:37 GMT (UK)  »
Jaywit, Thanks for your input - much appreciated.

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Armed Forces / Re: Age to join the Navy
« on: Saturday 15 March 25 05:36 GMT (UK)  »
AndyJ2022.  Thanks for the information. Very helpful. Much appreciated.

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Armed Forces / Re: Age to join the Navy
« on: Saturday 15 March 25 05:35 GMT (UK)  »
Martin Hooper, thanks for input.  I now see that you could be quite young and yet my grandfather as a cook had to be an older person - so it all fits.

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Armed Forces / Age to join the Navy
« on: Friday 14 March 25 00:15 GMT (UK)  »

Can anyone help me. -- what age would you have to be to join the British Navy in 1913.  It was before the outbreak of war - possibly with no impending thoughts of war.  My grandfather was an Assistant  pillmaker.  His name was George Herbert Fluke.  As he was about 22 years of age can anyone think why he would leave Pillmaking and go into the Navy at that time.  We wondered if the automation of pill making made his job redundant -- or was the Navy  better pay?  Trying to get our head around why he would leave.  I think he signed up for 12 years --- he ended up serving as an Assistant Cook and was on Mystery Ships and later at Anzac on the Whitby Abbey.  Pillmaking was not in the family line nor was Military Service.  George, as a young man, was in the Territorials.    In World War 2 he was in Australia and applied to join the Australian Airforce.  He was too old to fight but they took him on to work at the Richmond Base.  Perhaps he was just a military minded man and liked to be in Uniform.  Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

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South Africa / Re: Marriage of Gert Hendrik Prinsloo to Martha Roux (nee Mercer.
« on: Friday 07 March 25 00:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Pompon, I appreciate your help.  I'm still wondering if Martha married Gert Prinsloo or not.  On deceased baby's death certificate she is referred to as Martha Prinsloo - so it appears she was probably married or at least used Gert's surname-- and yet we cannot find their marriage certificate.Still searching.  Thanks again

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South Africa / Re: Marriage of Gert Hendrik Prinsloo to Martha Roux (nee Mercer.
« on: Wednesday 05 March 25 10:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Neale  1961--- at least now I have a corridor of dates from which to work. I appreciate your help with this.. The children all seem to have taken the name Prinsloo and  I believe Gert and Martha went on to adopt a boy who was also used the name Prinsloo. Could I ask where you found out that Martha had a child who died?   Perhaps there is some way to trace children who were adopted and find out their date of birth.  Thanks again

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South Africa / Marriage of Gert Hendrik Prinsloo to Martha Roux (nee Mercer.
« on: Tuesday 04 March 25 23:04 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone help me find the marriage of Gert Hendrik Prinsloo to Martha Roux (nee Mercer). This is a second marriage for Martha but I cannot find any details of her second marriage to Gert. Gert was born in 1897 and the marriage would have been in
South Africa.   I think Marth's first marriage to Jan Adries Roux Jason 7th October. 1913.  Any help would be much appreciated.

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