From: aero.spike@mail.com 
  
 Roland Perry  wrote: 
 > In message , at 18:07:41 on Sun, 7 Sep 
 > 2025, Spike  remarked: 
  
 >>>> The problem, which we are all aware of despite repeated mentions of how 
 >>>> the WWII version 
  
 >>> Which were introduced lest we forget, when there was an actual fucking 
 >>> war on. 
  
 >> Actually, it was introduced before the shooting started. 
  
 Technically, the Act introducing the 1939 Register was given the Royal 
 Assent on September the fifth, five days into the German invasion of Poland 
 and two days after war was declared between the UK and Germany. 
  
 The UK had apparently already opened fire only two hours after the 
 declaration, when aircraft that failed to identify themselves while flying 
 up the Mersey were fired on by AA gunners. The aircraft were RAF, and the 
 gunners missed. 
  
 >> And€€€there€€€s a war on Europe€€€s borders, in case you hadn€€€t noticed. 
  
 > This is not intended to be a counter-example, but I have my late Uncle's 
 > National ID card, and it was issued in 1946, reissued in 1952 when he 
 > bought the bungalow he lived in the rest of his life. He could have had 
 > a previous card of course, that's been lost (or more likely handed in 
 > when he was issued with the 1946 one). 
  
 I don€€€t recall ever seeing my WWII ID card, but I know the number because 
 it was used by the NHS, until they changed the system. 
  
 On the 1939 register, there are four people registered at the house I lived 
 in, three were my father, mother, and brother, the latter and another being 
 redacted. 
  
 >From a dimly-remembered remark about schooling by an aunt of mine, I 
 suspect the fourth name is hers. She would have been a young teenager at 
 the time, and I believe she was being looked after following the early 
 deaths of her parents - her father worked in an asbestos factory, and 
 although I haven€€€t checked I doubt whether he or his wife (my maternal 
 grandparents) saw fifty. 
  
 Anyway, these four people had consecutive Register numbers, and because I 
 was born later in the war, mine is completely different. 
  
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