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*"They will accept anything that is proof of death, even a undertakers receipt or a photograph of a post war civilian headstone”. <ref>Drew5233 [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/49481-clarification-of-provision-of-death-certificate-service-records/?p=582017 Clarification of provision of death certificate (Service records)] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 07 September 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2014</ref> However, you do not have to supply a death certificate when the date of birth of the individual was more than 116 years ago.<ref>"Veterans:UK" fact sheet [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140805133045/http://www.veterans-uk.info/pdfs/service_records/army_pack.pdf Army Personnel Records And Family Interest Enquiries] UK Government Web Archive. </ref>
*The next of kin hierarchy is explained on a WW2Talk Forum topic which also advises that “There is currently about a 12 month wait to receive the records once you apply”<ref> Wayne [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/41567-ww2-soldier-research-tips-and-links-for-new-researchers WW2 Soldier Research - Tips and Links for New Researchers], ''WW2Talk Forum'' 28 August 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2014</ref>
====Died in military service from 1948====
*[http://www.afm-veterans-uk.info/index.php Online Roll of Honour] contains the names of members of the Armed Forces who died in military service, on or after 1 January 1948 (and Palestine 1945-47), who are commemorated on the official single service rolls of honour. Ministry of Defence: Veterans UK
==FIBIS resources==
*[[Doctor]]
*[[Duke of York's Military School]]
*[[Hill station cantonments and camps]]
*[[Mailing lists]]
*[[Medals]]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sioAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Sanitary State of the Army in India: With Précis of Evidence''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament 1863 Google Books. Contains information on many topics including
**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sioAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA68 Duties] page 68, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sioAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA116 Dress] page 116, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sioAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA118 Intemperance] page 118, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sioAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128 Means of Recreation and Instruction] page 124.
:This is the first part of Volume IFor additional volumes, to page 265. There is also Volume II (total pages over 2000). The balance of the pages, which provide more details, may be found on the see [[Subscription websitesPublic health#Historical books online|Public health -Historical books online newspapers, journals and directories| subscription website]] "House of Commons Parliamentary Papers", as part of Paper number 3184 of 1863.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 "Adulterated Liquor sold to Sailors and Soldiers in the Bazars of Calcutta"] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA65 "The dangers to which Sailors and Soldiers are exposed in the Bazars of Calcutta"] from ''On the preservation of the health of seamen, especially of those frequenting Calcutta and the other Indian ports'' by Norman Chevers MD, Surgeon, Bengal Army 1864 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/akingshussarbei00compgoog#page/n159/mode/2up "Cantonment Life [c 1876<nowiki>]</nowiki>"] , page 151 from ''A King's Hussar: Being the Military Memoirs for Twenty-five Years of a Troop-sergeant-major of the 14th (King’s) Hussars'' by Edwin Mole 1897 Archive.org .
