James Kent's age

As TheAsphodelMeadows points out here there are a couple problems regarding James Kent's military service and age. The first problem is, that while his father was killed in WWI, was it ever mentioned that James served in WWI? The second is with the footnote setting a lower limit for his age as 18 in 1916. Assuming he did serve, this inference has several problems.

Conscription was not implemented until 1916, but he could have enlisted at the age of 17 or 18 as early as 1914.
There were also many cases of boys lying about their age and enlisting as young as 15.

If he did not serve, then it would make sense if he were born in 1900 or later, as that would have made him too young to serve, but could still be as old as 20 in 1920.

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SlayerNina·9/29/2016

He didn't say he fought, but his father was killed. Or maybe he was enlisted when the was about to finish, so he didn't really fight. In the second case he would be at least 18 in 1016. Or maybe he was 17 (for example) in 1920 (you know, Hollywood casting ages).

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Ehj666·9/29/2016

It would seem to be academic at this point since the information on age and military service appears to have been removed from Jimmy Kent's page.

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A Fandom user·9/29/2016

I didnt think that he served, already his father was serving and presumably he was the only the surviving "child", so he was conscripted, but he didnt serve, because in those cases they put you in the last place of the row , together with father who are widowers and taking care of their families, people who had "essential" jobs, etc. For example William could also have avoided the military service by being the only son of Mr Mason, but i suspect that Fellowes for dramatic purposes made it that he went to the war, Matthew was a volunteer. The conscription is not necesarilly that you go and serve as a trooper, its mean that you are forced to go to some center or local regiment and they decided if you go to serve or not; in my country i had to do that, but because i was in the university i didnt go to the army and my papers said (reservist without military preparation). But is a procedure that all must do. But anyways, i think that her age when he came to the Abbey was betwen 20-24, because he was a sort of teenager. Maybe 2 or 3 years older than Daisy.

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A Fandom user·1/4/2017

I Feel Sorry for Him Poor Jimmy left Downton Abbey I Will do it Sad for him leave .

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SlayerNina·1/4/2017

<div class="quote">82.203.24.241 wrote:
I Feel Sorry for Him Poor Jimmy left Downton Abbey I Will do it Sad for him leave . </div> Yes, we knew where everybody go except him :( I suppose he came back with Anthstruder, at least at the beginning

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What do you think?