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Record #17975

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 29 Entries

ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
22767	ADAMS, Sydney	1916	ENG,	May 1930 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
10434	ALLENBY, Edward	1908	ENG, YKS, Kirkbymoorside	Aug 1924 : Doric	CAN	National Childrens Home
21835	BAKER, Edwin Matthew	1913	ENG, LIN, Boston	Jul 1928 : Doric	CAN	Church of England Waifs and Strays Association	newron11
18698	BARNES, George R	1915	ENG, , Islington	May 1930 : Doric	CAN	Unknown
18700	BARNES, Harry	1907	ENG,	1924 : Doric	CAN	Unknown
18701	BARNES, Harry Hugh	1908	ENG,	1924 : Doric	CAN	Unknown
21664	BASS, Alban L	1915	ENG, , Great Ellingham	May 1930 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
21667	BASS, Robert G	1916	ENG,	May 1930 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
10458	BASSETT, Percy Reginald	1910	ENG, , Fulham	May 1924 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
20369	BECK, Gertrude Lillian	1908	ENG,	Apr 1926 : Doric	CAN	Unknown
11942	BENNETT, John Albert	1911	ENG,	Aug 1924 : Doric	CAN	National Childrens Home
22651	BLOWFIELD, Alfred	1909	ENG,	May 1925 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
22652	BROWN, James	1910	ENG,	May 1924 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
10435	BULLEN, Donald Owen	1909	ENG, , Potterspury	Aug 1924 : Doric	CAN	National Childrens Home
22447	CROPPER, Arthur Stanley	1914	ENG,	Jul 1928 : Doric	CAN	Church of England Waifs and Strays Association
12709	DAWES, Dick B	1910	ENG, LND, Westminster	May 1924 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays	di9
21851	GEORGE, James	1911	ENG,	Mar 1929 : Doric	CAN	British Immigration and Colonisation Association
9038	GRANEY, John George		ENG,	Jun 1924 : Doric	CAN	Salvation Army
22817	HAMILTON, William B	1912	ENG,	Aug 1929 : Doric	CAN	British Immigration and Colonisation Association
8245	IVERSON, Winifred	1914	ENG,	Jun 1924 : Doric	CAN	Salvation Army
22342	JAMES, George		ENG,	Mar 1929 : Doric	CAN	British Immigration and Colonisation Association
17975	LANGRAN, Arthur Charles		ENG,	Aug 1924 : Doric	CAN	National Childrens Home
18335	LEESON, George Marlow	1913	ENG, , Leamington, Warwickshire	May 1930 : Doric	CAN	Salvation Army
12710	NORVAL, Edward E	1907	ENG, LND, Kensington	May 1924 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
12711	PERCIVAL, Eric	1909	ENG, LAN, Salford	May 1924 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
15316	ROBINSON, Donald Arnold	1908	ENG, LND, Kennington	May 1924 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
12712	STYLES, Edward John	1909	ENG,	May 1924 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
23841	THOMAS, John	1909	ENG,	May 1924 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
23176	TURK, Frederick George	1911	ENG,	May 1925 : Doric	CAN	Waifs & Strays
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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 29 Entries

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