Lawson Trout b1897 was a Birmingham publicist and cinema enthusiast from the first half of the C20th, managing his first cinema on Institute Road, Kings Heath in 1915 ('The Cosy') where Nook Gallery is now. He was only 17 when he started! The cinema only survives a year under his management, perhaps being surpassed in popularity by the Ideal on York Road. He reappears in newspaper indices in 1918, writing for The Bioscope about Birmingham cinema-going. The timing makes me think that he may have been conscripted - or even volunteered to join the war effort. Is anyone in a position to look up his name in the various subscription WWI soldier records?
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Is anyone able to look up a name for me? Possible WWI soldier.
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yes thats him jan..all his service records are on ancestry south staffordshire regiment and on the 1939 eve of war register he is living on bristol road married and occupation is publicity agent
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That's surely him - thanks so much!
Many thanks - so useful!
