Hi folks, I was wondering if it was routine that all soldiers in the British Army posted to a foreign posting to have a Will made out? My grandfather James Jesse Stroud joined up in his teenage years and married in 1906 in Bombay in his mid 20s They left India for a new life in New Zealand in 1907. Could someone please tell me where I would need to start looking for this Will - if it existed? Cheers Ainslie.

Hello Ainslie, A will for James Jesse Stroud in not in our Archives website, but his WW1 records are available. There is no death for him in the BMD website, suggesting he died other that New Zealand. Lorraine in NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ainslie Pyne" <woodart@woodart.com.au> To: <india@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [INDIA] FIBIS record question -Question of Wills. > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if it was routine that all soldiers in the British Army > posted to a foreign posting to have a Will made out? > > My grandfather James Jesse Stroud joined up in his teenage years and > married in 1906 in Bombay in his mid 20s They left India for a new life > in New Zealand in 1907. > Could someone please tell me where I would need to start looking for > this Will - if it existed? > > Cheers > Ainslie. > > > > > ===== India Mailing List ===== > > Families in British India Society: http://www.fibis.org > > > Archives for this list can be found at: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=INDIA > and at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/INDIA > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message