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Percy Wearn
« on: Wednesday 08 October 25 21:56 BST (UK) »
I am trying to locate where Percy Wearn (born 1895) was living in 1945.  He is missing from the 1939 Register but his wife is shown as living in Alton.

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Re: Percy Wearn
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 08 October 25 23:10 BST (UK) »
 He could be in army/Navy/airforce/ other ?
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Re: Percy Wearn
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 09 October 25 00:06 BST (UK) »
Presume you mean Percy Stephen Wearn?  What is the significance of 1945?
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Re: Percy Wearn
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 09 October 25 01:28 BST (UK) »
He served in the Home Guard so I am trying to establish if it was in Hampshire, and it was Percy Stephen Wearn.

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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 09 October 25 08:41 BST (UK) »
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Re: Percy Wearn
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 09 October 25 10:23 BST (UK) »
The reference to serving in WW2 would account for his absence on the 1939 register. 

WW1 MRI refers to him as just Percy & the 1911-1921 refer to just Percy

Given there is only one Percy Wearn birth between 1837 - 1916 I doubt it’s another Percy Wearn  ;D
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Re: Percy Wearn
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 09 October 25 12:44 BST (UK) »
Percy served on anti-aircraft guns in both Southampton and Portsmouth during WWII, but was injured and rendered almost completely deaf by a land-mine when it exploded.  This was in Portsmouth. 

By the early 1970s he was living in Upper Bucklebury in Berkshire.

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Re: Percy Wearn
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 09 October 25 13:35 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your replies.  That is him in the newspaper article.  I applied to TNA for his Home Guard papers but they are asking which county he served in which is why I am trying to establish if he was living in Hampshire as well as serving there.

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« Reply #8 on: Monday 13 October 25 16:24 BST (UK) »
I would think he was living in Hampshire while he served with the Home Guard.  Movement was fairly restricted during the war.

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