Returned from WW1 in 1918?

[jonw65]

Has a little "a" there as well, denoting an absent voter.

[stanmapstone]

You can see a list of abbreviations used in the 20th Century in Electoral Registers at
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=800159.msg6583845#msg6583845

Stan

[Regorian]

Could have been any reason. There were plenty of replacements ready for sending to France in later 1918, but Lloyd George held them back.

[dtcoulson]

Hello Jon,

Big shock for me to see the 'a' on the left, following the number, whereas I had been looking at the 'NM' on the right and wondering why there was no 'a' next to it. Thanks heaps.

But to continue the mystery, I have screenshots of two ER listings dated 1918, one in which the name Thomas Coulson is followed by an 'R' and one in which 'NM' is on the right of the name.

I have no clue yet as to why there should be two distinct listings dated 1918, nor which of the two came first.

* To combat that, I have seen that the year-dates attached to the ER files aren't always correct.
In one instance, a file that appears on the search index as '1918' has on its front page 'Autumn 1919' when you look inside.

-DC