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The Common Room / Tattoo Identification
« on: Friday 28 April 17 15:18 BST (UK) »
Hello everyone! I hope I am posting this in the right place...sorry if I'm not!
The people of Rootschat have been massively helpful in the past and so I was wondering if you could help me out again!
I have recently found a war record for my great great grandfather and on the page which details his conscription information there is a section that asks if the new solider has distinguishing marks and it states that he had two tattoo dots on his left hand between his forefinger and thumb. Despite all attempt to find information about it...I can't! I have found countless articles about 3 dots, 5 dots etc. but nothing about 2. I am aware that it's probable it's linked in some way to prison or a borstal but I cannot find anything. As far as I am aware he was English but there has always been a strong rumour in our family that he was in fact Irish and I am 99% certain that his parents were Irish so I don't know whether, if it was prison/borstal, it was an Irish prison/borstal. I have tried to find information pertaining to a possible criminal record but so far nothing! The only one I found was for 1909 but he would have been 11! He was born in 1898. Any information you could give would be massively helpful. His name was Francis Murphy born 1898 and he lived in Manchester. G
The people of Rootschat have been massively helpful in the past and so I was wondering if you could help me out again!
I have recently found a war record for my great great grandfather and on the page which details his conscription information there is a section that asks if the new solider has distinguishing marks and it states that he had two tattoo dots on his left hand between his forefinger and thumb. Despite all attempt to find information about it...I can't! I have found countless articles about 3 dots, 5 dots etc. but nothing about 2. I am aware that it's probable it's linked in some way to prison or a borstal but I cannot find anything. As far as I am aware he was English but there has always been a strong rumour in our family that he was in fact Irish and I am 99% certain that his parents were Irish so I don't know whether, if it was prison/borstal, it was an Irish prison/borstal. I have tried to find information pertaining to a possible criminal record but so far nothing! The only one I found was for 1909 but he would have been 11! He was born in 1898. Any information you could give would be massively helpful. His name was Francis Murphy born 1898 and he lived in Manchester. G