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I just ordered some downloads from the National Archives.  At the bottom of their acknowledgment email there is an attachment smalldots.gif.  Does anybody know what this is for.  I downloaded and opened it and just got a blank Window Internet Explorer page (not my default browser). I tried to view it in my default browser (Google Chrome) and got a blank browser page.

Easily confused and puzzled

Gobbo

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William Herbert Harland, born 1893 in Redcar, was wounded in France between 20 April 1915,when he entered France and 29 April 1915 when he was evacuated home (England).  I have a copy of his medal card and also the original of his character on discharge.  He enlisted in the DLI on 13 Sep 1914 (No 2619 Pte) and was discharged from the Labour Corps (No 219128 Pte) on 31 Aug 1917.  Unfortunately his service record seems to be among the missing and I have not yet managed to trace his unit in the DLI but also I have not yet looked up the medal roll entries and SWB list entry at Kew.

A family story is that his mother went to see him in hospital in or near Dereham, Norfolk, shortly after his evacuation and was asked to authorize the amputation of an almost useless arm.  She is supposed to have refused on the grounds that a useless arm is better than no arm.  I have been unable to find anything about a military hospital in the Dereham area other than a reference to crosses from an ash tree in "the Old Vicarage, which was a military hospital in the first world war." I shall be very grateful if anybody can point me to more data on military hospitals in the Dereham area and if they know where the hospital records are I shall be over the moon.

All the best

Gobbo

Hi

I hope that this is the right board for help with reading a death record and perhaps a simple medical explanation. 

My ancestor, Peter Couper, an agricultural labourer/forester, died in Abbotshall, Fife, in 1881.  The illustration below reproduces the cause of death information and I would be grateful for some others interpretation of what this is and also if any medically experienced rootschatter would care to explain it.

All the best

Gobbo

Hi

I am trying to find the date and location of the death of Lily Darling somewhere in Canada about 1960.  She was a widow, born Lily Hasted Harland in Middlesbrough, England 1900.  The family story is that she had pulled into a filling station and stopped at the pumps but did not get out of the car and was found to be dead when the attendants investigated.  If anyone can point me in the right direction to discover more about this or even look up the Canadian death records I shall be very grateful.

All the best

Gobbo