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Why would someone lie about their age? [26]
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I also thought that maybe he had a brother who died with the same name. But then I thought but where is his certificate still he needs to be registered himself?
Thank you for your comments and suggestions everyone you have good ideas. If you go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humniska that is the place my grandfather was born. I thought at first a mistake had been made with the birth date in Poland. But I have his details for when he came to England. I don't think he was in the proper army as he was "too young" but he did arrive here with the 2nd Polish corps. I have some papers to say he did forced labour in austria and that he was sent to Italy. These are the papers that mention his birth date. Also my nan showed me a letter from when he was registered at our local doctors and the date matches. So we aren't just going by what we knew when he was alive we have a few papers that say 1928. Maybe you are right maybe he did not want to go in the army?
He was very very young when he came here and when he met my nan and she is convinced that if he were older than what he said she would have noticed, he looked very young.
But then I do not know. I want to believe it is him, but I don't want to on the other hand incase it is not and I have the wrong person. It is so confusing :)
Also Artic Paul: I am not sure about the schooling is there a way of finding records of schooling in Poland? If so it would be good to try it.
