In message <51cc861d$0$15905$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Lesley Robertson <l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl> writes: >"Tickettyboo" wrote in message >news:apsh1bF5mgdU1@mid.individual.net... > >https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25941-12055-68?cc=1968530& >wc=M9MT-2HP:1046484211 > > >Link will take you to a WW1 draft registration card on Family Search. >Its section 12 I am having trouble with, the reason for claiming >exemption from draft. The first word appears to be Yes: and then after >that, maybe Seminal but the last word has me defeated. If anyone can >make the letters out I could have a stab at finding out what it means. I'd agree that it starts with H - it is similar to the one in his name at the top of the page. The middle word I'd agree as S_minal, with the second letter probably e just because that's a word (and I've just spotted that the e in "Yes:" is that shape too). But the rest of the writing on the page is sufficiently careful that I don't think it _is_ Hiatus, unless he mis-spelt it - there are too many loops, by two. Look at Victor, Portland, 11th, British, Fredericton - he always makes a t tall, and with a cross (though it slipped to the left on one of the Portlands). There's only one other s at the end of a word, in Thompsons; that doesn't have the tail on the end, but one example isn't enough to be sure. I don't _think_ it's an i; wherever else he's written one, he has put the dot on it, though often some way away! Heasterics? (Going against what I've just said about it being a t and him dotting his is!) or -eucs? -ceucs? -eax-? I keep wanting the first letter to be M, but from others nearby, it clearly isn't. Zooming in a lot, there does seem to be a pen lift between it and the ea/ia. > >(not that it impressed the army, he was enlisted less than a month >later and served till July 1919) > >*/-*/- > >It's "Hiatus", I think. >Lesley Robertson Hiasterus/Heasterus? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Bread is lovely, don't get me wrong. But it's not cake. Or it's rubbish cake. I always thought that bread needed more sugar and some icing. - Sarah Millican (Radio Times 11-17 May 2013)