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The 1918 General Election gave the right to vote to all men over the age of 21, women over the age of 30 and military personnel over the age of 19. The first list of Absent Voters was compiled and published in 1918 but contained many errors. Servicemen were given another chance to register and a second list was published April 1919. After this lists were published twice a year in Spring and Autumn.
The lists give a name, home address, military service number and regiment, battalion or name of a ship.
This transcription is from the 1918 and 1919 electoral register for Poole and contains over 4000 names.
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Museum Ref No: PLA 9 BROBroadstone's war memorials: Broadstone War Memorial, St. John the Baptist Church Memorial Boards, Broadstone First School Memorial; researched by Jill Floyd, 2006
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Museum Ref No: AH_Brownsea_men_off_to_Great_War3rd September 1914, Brownsea Island men off to the Great War.
Print from a photograph.
From the Andrew Hawkes collection.
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Museum Ref No: G9_0004Postcard photograph showing Bert Chaffey of Poole in soldier's uniform with his bride and rest of wedding party; c. 1914.
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Museum Ref No: G9_0012Large posed group of convalescents and staff outside building with large arched entrance; 1914-1918.
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Museum Ref No: Stickland collection WW1 Cpl.R.J.Porter, Cpl.R.J.Porter backPostcard of Cpl.R.J.Porter. From the Stickland collection, Poole Museum.
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Museum Ref No: PEO 929.310,000 Fallen Remembered on Dorset War Memorials compiled by Murial Monk, published by Somerset and Dorset Family History Society, 2000. Illus. ISBN 1 871257 48 4
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Museum Ref No: D_High_Street_0103High Street with marching soldiers (Worcs Regt). First World War. Shows Gibbs Bros, hosiers.
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Aubrey Jenkins remembers Poole and World War I and after
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Museum Ref No: G9_0007David Henry Lord, boy seaman, DCM, seated, with two nurses standing on either side of him; 1916.
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