James,

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:10:35 -0700, James Newton, Host wrote:

> We didn't number them until after WWI?

Well I wasn't actually around then, but that's what I've heard...

>I just spent a gob of cash on eBay for a medal awarded to my grand pappy and it's marked "to Jeb Newton for
his service in World War 1" so I'm pretty sure they knew it was the first world war.

And I bet they were selling genuine Roman coins marked "55 BC" too!  :-)

> And I do have genuine rifle that is marked as from the "first battle of bighorn"

There seems to be a habit of omitting the "1" from the first of a series - the first "Rocky" film wasn't
called "Rocky 1", for example.  Maybe it's supposed to be bad luck, like mentioning "Macbeth" by name.

Errr - whoops!

Cheers,

Howard Winter
St.Albans, England

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