When Harold George Mincher was born on 22 December 1913, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Joseph Mincher, was 43 and his mother, Annie Maria Goodridge, was 34. He died in 1978, in his hometown, at the age of 65.
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Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
English (Staffordshire): variant of Minchull, a habitational name from Church Minshull and Minshull Vernon (in Cheshire). The placename probably derives from the Old English personal name Mann, Monn + Old English scylfe ‘shelf, ledge’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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