From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:39:17 +0000, Peter Johnson   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:43:17 +0000, cecilia  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Interesting.  Thank you [though as I was once told (though I've never   
   >>checked) that all Government employees were Civil Servants for   
   >>passport purposes etc until the early 1960s, I'd be tempted to think   
   >>that "(War Office)" was more a departmental division than an address.   
   >>Note to self: check the census occupation and occupation code for   
   >>someone I think was in the Colonial Office by 1911.]   
   >   
   >I've seen census entries for men with managerial positions in the Post   
   >Office say they were Civil Servants, which they were, and sometimes   
   >with the addition that they worked for the PO, and sometimes also   
   >their position within the PO.   
      
   To amplify my previous statement - I was told was that "Civil,Servant"   
   covered all Government employees from diplomats to postmen.  Nice to   
   have half of that confirmed.   
      
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