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By: 17th April 2012 at 10:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Well, here in Britain, I’m sure there’d be an awful lot of forms to fill out; but you wouldn’t have any trouble convincing the Inland Revenue that they were alive...
...not if the Inland Revenue thought that they’d missed out on collecting some tax! :diablo:
By: 17th April 2012 at 11:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-C.D. Warren, I think your answer to the question will be hard to better re Back Taxes.;)
Jim.
Lincoln .7
By: 17th April 2012 at 13:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-although the MRS would probably want a better story than that !!
By: 20th April 2012 at 22:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Great story Andy!
By: 20th April 2012 at 22:47 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-On similar lines to Andys story....
When my Dad died a few years back I had to do all the usual admin, one of which was telling all the utilities, Electric & Gas- no problem, all done over the phone, Water however was a different matter, they kept asking to talk to the account holder, even though I had made it perfectly clear he'd left this mortal coil, ending up with me suggesting we held a séance!
Fortunately a supervisor was found to sort things out :rolleyes:
By: 21st April 2012 at 18:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I found a book in the National Archives, at Kew, today, which might answer your query; it's "Missing Believed Killed," by Stuart Hadaway, published by Pen & Sword, ISBN 184884659-2
By: 22nd April 2012 at 11:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Wasn't there a story of a lady with a farm who remarried after being told her husband had been killed in action, WW 1 I think. A few years later her first husband turned up alive and well. I think she continued to live with both men.
By: 25th April 2012 at 12:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-That would have been a very difficult situation to have dealt with, I would think.:confused:
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By: Dave Homewood - 17th April 2012 at 10:24
What happens in the cases where a member of the military goes missing on operations and is not heard from again, and the authorities have declared them legally dead, if at a later stage they re-emerge from a POW camp or other prison and it wasn't known they were there? I understand this has happened in the past, with some Vietnam War POW's, etc.
If they are declared legally dead, and their insurance and benefits plus a widows pension etc is paid out to the family; and then they turn up back home again; would that all have to be paid back?
Another example, a friend of mine told me her father went missing in France/Belgium in 1940. They were told he was presumed dead as he never turned up in the Red Cross prisoner lists etc. Then months later after they thought he'd died, they were told he was alive. He had recaived a bad blow to the head at Dunkirk, had been dragged into a boat and taken home to England, but had no idea who he was. He was in a hospital for many months with amnesia till one day it all came back to him!