Author Topic: Help deciphering a word in a 1924 telegram please  (Read 451 times)

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Help deciphering a word in a 1924 telegram please
« on: Friday 11 August 23 12:03 BST (UK) »
This is a heartbreaking read regarding my great great uncles death from pneumonia in 1924. This telegram has come from his father “Charlie” and has been sent to his mother “Emily Snow” from the military hospital Shorncliffe.

There is one word I’m not sure on. I think this could be “”Jack”? or perhaps a military abbreviation “OCK”? As Charles Snow was in the military himself but I’ve not been able to find any abbreviation for that so I would greatly appreciate any other interpretations of the word.

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Re: Help deciphering a word in a 1924 telegram please
« Reply #1 on: Friday 11 August 23 19:24 BST (UK) »
Short for "o'clock" perhaps?
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Re: Help deciphering a word in a 1924 telegram please
« Reply #2 on: Friday 11 August 23 19:31 BST (UK) »
Short for "o'clock" perhaps?

That was also my thought.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Help deciphering a word in a 1924 telegram please
« Reply #3 on: Friday 11 August 23 19:42 BST (UK) »
Yes one o’clock would make sense, thanks!