age of enlisting?

[Trees]

how very sad to loos husband and son I hope the knowledge that they are held in great reverence even today helps heal such sadness
You can be justifiably be proud of both father and son
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[Springbok]

Nelson was 12 yrs old when he went to sea. And certainly powder monkeys would often be much younger and expected to use arms if it came to hand to hand fighting.
Plenty of women too who fought beside their men in the Peninsular Wars and on the ships at Trafalgar!!
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Pa joined up at 16 , under-age in 1914.  W2 (1939) he joined up again age 41 over-age!!

[Redroger]

My father went down much the same route, tried to enlist in 1914 aged 15 because he was "Bored" by farm life, but gave the correct age, was told to come back the next year "And don't be 16". In WW2 he was in the reserved occupation as railway engine driver, but Sergeant in the Home Guard, and from information I stumbled across when he died I think he might have been designated as a "stay behind", but that was never talked about and today is still somewhat shrouded.