11th February 1916-Liverpool Courier SOLDIER’S DEATH CERTIFICATES The following announcement is issued by the War Office:- Certificates of the death of soldiers killed in action or dying as a result of active service are issued to those concerned by the War Office on application free of charge. In cases in which more than one certificate is required for insurance purposes, etc, duplicate copies are supplied. It should be noted that the notification sent to the next-of-kin by the officers in charge of the records immediately upon the receipt of the casualty list is not intended as a certificate of death, but is sent out in order to give the relatives the earliest possible information of the casualty. In each case of death an individual documentary report is subsequently rendered from the base in confirmation, and it is only on receipt of this evidence that a formal certificate of death is issued. In the case of missing men, a special form of certificate is furnished when the Army Council, after careful consideration of the circumstances of each case, have decided that owing to the lapse of time and absence of news it is necessary to accept the soldiers as dead for official purposes. Applications for certificates of death in cases where the soldier has been reported killed or dead, or where his death has been officially accepted, should be addressed to the secretary, War Office, Park Buildings, St. James Park, London S.W Now if the death certificates were issued by the War Office and not the General Registrar , you cant tell me that some soldiers who were Killed, Died of wounds who appear in Official Casualty lists which have landed on the desk in Park Buildings have slipped through the net? I have Soldiers, taken from the official Casualty lists as being Killed or DOW, their names appear on War memorials, but apart from them being in the War List there is no further official information for them Id love to spend a month down at Kew having a ferret through the War Office records.
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