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« on: Saturday 07 April 12 18:48 BST (UK) »
Can anybody make soemthing out of this?  It's from my father's army records, describing his distinguishing marks - the latter part says "scar eyebrow L.", but what's the first word?

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Re: medical handwriting
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 07 April 12 18:50 BST (UK) »
looks like linear scar
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 Salop.Lancs.Stoke on Trent.
Colclough.Ackley.Adams.Harris.James
 Longton  Stoke on trent Staffs.
Scholes.Collinge
 Middleton Lancs.
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Re: medical handwriting
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 07 April 12 18:51 BST (UK) »
Hello -

I would agree with linear scar.

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Re: medical handwriting
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 07 April 12 18:55 BST (UK) »
Could be, yes - all his other is are dotted but not very heavily, so maybe his pen just dried up on that one.  Thanks.

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Re: medical handwriting
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 07 April 12 19:02 BST (UK) »
What about this one - any idea about the word after "reserve" on the bottom line?

The context is that this is my father signing on for the army in 1944 as a schoolboy when he had just turned 17 - he wasn't actually taken into the army until the following year.

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Re: medical handwriting
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 07 April 12 20:31 BST (UK) »

is it "vide" meaning "refer to" ?

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Re: medical handwriting
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 07 April 12 20:36 BST (UK) »
Thanks, yes, that sounds feasible doesn't it?  Then the bit after that would be a code number for some army document which should be referred to.
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