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e-mail April 10, 2010.
Excerpt from April 10, 2010 e-mail:
I am sending you some certificates and some information and photographs of John Crompton during the First World War. I'm also sending you the message received by his parents notifying them of their 16 year old son's death. Alfred Claude Crompton ( Alfie) joined up in Edinburgh so his parents wouldn't find out. (He looks much older in his photographs. His mother had made Jack go around to all of the recruiting offices in their town advising them that his brother, 15 at the time, was about to enlist. He outwitted them and was killed on the Somme. He joined The Royal Scots Guards.I think you may find it interesting from an historical point of view.
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Alfred C. Crompton
1 Jul 1916
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