Hvorfor tage til England i 1916

[Helle Jespersen]

En slægtnings mand vælger i ca 1916 at tage til England, han er, efter skattebøger og registerblade retur i DK igen i slutningen af ca 1919.
Han var farveriarbejder i København og primært bosat på Frederiksberg.

Hvorfor ville man vælge at tage til England i den periode? Danmark var jo neutral under krigen og mig bekendt så var der mange der profilerede på krigen dengang.

[Mikkel Eide Eriksen]

Hej Helle

Et usikkert gæt: En stor del af Englands unge mænd var ved fronten, så der har nok været brug for arbejdskraft. Han har måske kunnet tjene bedre dér end på Frederiksberg?

Som farveriarbejder kan han måske have været involveret i farvning af stof til uniformer?

At the outbreak of war in 1914, the huge number of volunteers answering the appeal of Secretary of State for War, Lord Kitchener, were formed into a New Army. The problem of providing uniforms for these recruits was acute and many trained in their civilian clothes for weeks. A highly simplified version of Service Dress was produced for them, without breast pockets, shoulder straps and other refinements. They were dark blue in colour, because the original khaki dye had been produced in Germany before the war and it had proved difficult to acquire sufficient from alternative sources. This colour gave rise to the popular name for the uniform; "Kitchener's Blues". Around 500,000 sets of these uniforms were produced and worn during basic training.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Dress_(British_Army)#Kitchener.27s_Blues

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[Helle Jespersen]

Det kunne faktisk godt være en mulighed at det forholder sig sådan.