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Name :: : Arthur Charles LANGRAN
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland

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Date of Arrival: : 22 Aug 1924
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Doric
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Agency: : National Childrens Home

Notes{website}swns.com/news/chain-smoking-whisky-drinker-celebrates-100th-birthday-7401/

Chain smoking whisky drinker celebrates 100th birthday
September 24, 2010 | by SWNS Reporter

A lifelong chain-smoker has celebrated reaching his 100th birthday ? despite puffing his way through nearly 300,000 fags.

Hard-living Arthur Langran has smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day since the age of 20.

The father-of-two also religiously drinks a dram of Macallan single malt Scotch whiskey every evening before getting into bed.

Arthur, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, even celebrated his 100th birthday drinking pints of ale at his local pub with friends and family.

He said: ?I always say the secret is doing things you?re not told to do.

?I have been smoking since I was 20 and I still enjoy it, and a pipe. I have a whiskey every night.

?I also like reading the papers and doing crosswords with the help of my son John.?

Arthur?s eldest son Peter, 62, revealed that doctors have told his father to keep smoking.

He added: ?Dad has smoked roll-ups since he was 20-years-old and more recently used a pipe.

?These days he rolls himself five or six a day but used to smoke more and has his pipe once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

?He has a small single malt whiskey every night. He?s been doing that ever since he was elderly.

?He?s had a tough old life. He was an orphan, had a terrible time living and working in Canada and was blown up by a grenade in the war.

?The doctor has said its not worth getting him to give up the cigarettes.

?He?s still in good health despite the smoking and still mobile and gets up stairs whenever he wants.?

Arthur was born an orphan and sent to Canada by National Children Homes when he was just 14 years old to work as a farmhand.

He returned to Britain in 1940 when he was 30-years-old so he could join the Army and fight Hitler and the Nazis in the Second World War.

It was also the same year that he smoked his first cigarette, shortly after signing up with the Suffolk Regiment.

After smoking ten cigarettes a day since then, Arthur?s fag tally adds up to 292,000 over eight decades.

He fought in Burma during the Second World War and spent 25 years in the armed forces reaching the rank Warrant Officer class two.

During the war he was hit by a grenade and 80 years later chunks of lead shrapnel from the explosive remain underneath his skin.

When he left he army he worked as a storeman at the army barracks in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, before joining the civil service.

For many years Arthur celebrated his birthday on September 8 but he discovered it was September 6 after applying for a birth certificate upon leaving the army.

He said: ?All those years I?d been having it on the eighth , then when they sent my certificate back it was on the sixth.?

Arthur celebrated his birthday at The George pub, in Hintlesham, Suffolk, which is run by his youngest son John, 57.

He was married to Ivy who sadly died in 2000.

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Surnames starting with: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 30 Entries

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3023	ABBOTT, Charles	1884	ENG, ESS, Messing	Apr 1900 : Dominion	CAN	National Childrens Home
3033	ABBOTT, Frederick	1893	ENG, SRY, Kingston Upon Thames	Mar 1903 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
3103	ABRAHAMS, Frederick	1876	ENG,	Mar 1891 : Sarnia	CAN	National Childrens Home
3149	ACREMAN, Emily	1877	ENG,	Jul 1888 : Vancouver	CAN	National Childrens Home
3165	ADAM, Charles	1899	ENG,	Mar 1913 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
17047	ADCOCK, William	1892	ENG, NTT, Rolleston	Oct 1907 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
9832	ADKINS, Proctor Selby	1894	ENG,	Mar 1910 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
5358	AITKEN, Lawrence Gray	1909	SCT, LKS, Glasgow	Aug 1925 : Montnairn	CAN	National Childrens Home
5359	ALFORD, Stanley Victor	1910	ENG, HRT, Royston	Aug 1925 : Montnairn	CAN	National Childrens Home
22729	ALLAN, Alec	1876	ENG,	Mar 1889 : Vancouver	CAN	National Childrens Home
13096	ALLEN, Ernest John	1894	WAL, GLA, Pontypridd	Aug 1909 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
2735	ALLEN, Harry Edward	1898	ENG, LAN	Jul 1908 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home
10434	ALLENBY, Edward	1908	ENG, YKS, Kirkbymoorside	Aug 1924 : Doric	CAN	National Childrens Home
9112	ALLISON, John Henry	1897	ENG, KEN, Sidcup	Mar 1910 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home	soutsc
14556	ANDERSON, Charlotte	1871	ENG, LAN, Liverpool	May 1885 : Sarnia	CAN	National Childrens Home
11880	ANDERSON, Christine	1875	ENG,	May 1885 : Sarnia	CAN	National Childrens Home
10452	ANDERSON, William	1906	ENG, LDN, London	Jul 1921 : Megantic	CAN	National Childrens Home
12754	ANDREWS, Gertrude	1879	ENG,	May 1889 : Sarnia	CAN	National Childrens Home
12637	ANGLIS, Philip George	1886	ENG, LND, Lewisham	Apr 1904 : Southwark	CAN	National Childrens Home
5360	APOW, Leslie	1911	ENG, LDN, London	Aug 1925 : Montnairn	CAN	National Childrens Home
4390	ARGENT, Albert	1878	ENG,	Mar 1891 : Sarnia	CAN	National Childrens Home
8614	ARGENT, Joseph	1892	ENG, YKS, Sheffield	Mar 1909 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home	Lyn 8
4389	ARGENT, William John	1878	ENG,	Mar 1891 : Sarnia	CAN	National Childrens Home
12638	ASHDOWN, Pitman W	1890	ENG, , Edmonton	Apr 1904 : Southwark	CAN	National Childrens Home
6447	ASLETT, Ethel	1881	ENG,	May 1891 : Sarnia	CAN	National Childrens Home
8180	ASPDEN, Joseph	1913	ENG, , Fulwood	Sep 1928 : Antonia	CAN	National Childrens Home
5361	ATKINSON, Thos	1910	ENG, YKS, Keighley	Aug 1925 : Montnairn	CAN	National Childrens Home
10454	ATTFIELD, Harry	1910	ENG,	Mar 1924 : Lancastria	CAN	National Childrens Home
14557	AUCKLAND, Harry	1882	ENG,	Apr 1894 : Labrador	CAN	National Childrens Home
5393	AULT, Ada May	1882	ENG, DBY, Derby	May 1891 : Sarnia	CAN	National Childrens Home
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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