I need a WW1 Army record for one soldier. TNA has quoted me about 100 pounds including postage to Canada, but they can't even be bothered to find out how many pages there actually are, so this is only an estimate. The cost is prohibitive. I have looked up numerous Canadian WW1 records, and they tend to have a number of useless pages in them (forms that are empty or have almost nothing on them, etc), but most of them are about 10 pages or so even at maximum, so I am having trouble imagining what could possibly be in a British record that would cost this much money.
This man in question was a veterinarian, and was discharged in 1916, quite possibly for medical reasons. He died almost exactly a year later from "shell shock" (death certificate), but he is not listed among the war dead anywhere except in the rolls of the Freemasons to which he belonged. I am trying to make the case that he ought to be included among the war dead and on the Commonwealth War Graves site, as no one ever got "shell shock" from living in southern Ontario in 1917.
So, in order to proceed with this uphill task, I need to have a copy of his military record.
Would anyone be able to get this for me? I will have more expenses ahead with this case, so want to keep it to a minimum.
Thanks for any help you can give. I can provide the file number and will pay your expenses.
Loo
