Dianne try to find out if his Regiment is still in existence of if there is an association for it. If not in existence it would have amalgamated with another regiment. There would be some sort of museum. You could also try GRO for a copy of his military records. You would probably get more information from them than any other document. At a minimum they should be able to give his residence on enlistment, who his next of kin was. his movements from unit to unit within the Army. probably a copy of the notification telegram and maybe correspondence about any of his belongings to be returned to the next of kin. If nothing else the military was very good at keeping fairly detailed information on a servicemen - what training he did and where - if he was hospitalized etc. bob ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [GLS] Death Certificate for WW1 Casualties > Hi Ken, > > Yes it makes sense now - will stick to the War Graves details and > certificate. Better than nothing! Thanks for your input. > > Regards > > Diana > > Hello Diana > I hate to be a pessimist but I feel that I should warn you that you are > likely to be disappointed with the death certificate when you receive it. > The > place of death is likely to be shown as "France & Flanders" (= The > Western > Front), and the cause of death is likely to simply read "On war service", > or words > to that effect, and even his date of death will not necessarily be > accurate. > The reason for all this is that a major war being fought and, with > roughly, > on average, about 300,000 to be recorded per annum there simply wasn't > time > to go into all the accurate details. Sorry! > Ken. > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for home users. SPAMfighter has removed 2626 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len