thanks Michael!
Yes, demobbed is British for demobilised.
I have come across a recording from. Corporal R B Oliver packaged and stamped from Pepsi addressed to his family.…
You trust Chris Child? He's deranged you know 😉 Great post!
Your “ Congress didn’t have the funds to pay them” was very widespread, no doubt. My mother liked using the…
Ugh! I was just thinking yesterday about something I wrote for Vita Brevis a few years ago where misunderstanding a…
Absolutely! See this post I wrote for an expensive description of what that can mean - https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2016/11/option-d/
What throws a lot of folk is use of terms like brother, sister, cousin, in laws, etc. They were much…
A friend in the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati added "some officers were deranged because Congress simply didn't have the…
yes - we watch The Christmas Story all day Christmas...great movie