108 YEARS OLD
VETERAN BRITISH RAILWAYMAN. CONGRATULATED BY KING AND QUEEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 H.m.) LONDON, May 30. The United Kingdom’s oldest pensioner, Mr John Christian Franclow, of Wolverton, is 108 years old today. He received a birthday telegram from their Majesties, congratulating him on the attainment of a “remarkable age. Mr Franclow worked on the railways for most of his life and has occupied his present house for seventy years. His unmarried daughter, aged 68, cares for him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 2
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84108 YEARS OLD Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 2
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