Hi All public service appointments are listed in the government gazette. It will be a lot of reading but it will give his date of appointment. Cheers Neville Paul Blair wrote: > I'm trying to unpick someone's age. > > I know he started work with the PMG (as it was) at the 'earliest age for > a telegram boy' > > 13? 14? 15? 16? > > This would have been around the end of WWI, to put it into a time context. > > TIA > > Paul