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    2. elizabeth howard
    3. Hi, The last two names on the Downham War memorial are of Thomas William Young and William Thomas Young. There is only one on the Roll of Honour list for Downham nor can I find the other one in the CWGC site , there are 5 WTs but none is local to Downham nor has parents who correspond to the 1911 census . However , William Thomas Young, living at Ryston End, Downham, is 42 in 1911 so absolutely right for the death in 1915 aged 46 , and he has a wife Grace, and a son named Thomas Wm , aged13....b Nordelph Ancestry has a service record of Thomas William Young, then a bit of a muddle but I can read Mrs Harriet Grace and then something and then , mother notified , death Nov 1917 This would seem to be a father and son both killed...father in 1915 and son in 1917.......but with their names transposed........The father is William Thomas b c 1869 kia in Sept 1915 and the son giving the same home address is b c 1898 or 1894 according to his service record , he says he was 20 in 1914, but the census of 1911 says he is 13.... is Thomas William .and killed in Nov 1917........ Anyone with a clearer pair of eyes ? and brain ? is this my first father and son lost to the war . life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=///

    04/08/2014 11:07:55