Where and when did he die?

[blinky]

can anyone help me with details on how they registered a death in ww1 .i have the death certificate of my relative stanley frederick haines, he died 21st oct 1916 in fort pit hospital,rochester but details on ancestry list him dying in france and flanders on 19th oct 1916,i thought that although he may have died in france its not registered till his body was back in england ,but on the death certificate it says that a samuel walley was present at his death in fort pitt hospital.any ideas about this ? thanks x

[Hackstaple]

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists Corporal Stanley Frederick Haines of the Machine Gun Corps as died age 26 on 19 October 1916. He was buried at St. Marys Church, Purton in Wiltshire. Soldiers who died overseas were almost always buried there so this burial indicates he died in the UK.

Ancestry shows his death was registered at Chatham, so Fort Pitt is very likely.

Samuel Walley would have been a doctor or medical orderly I suppose. Did he sign the death certificate?

[blinky]

i only have a copy and the cause of death is signed by a j.m henyard??spelling FRCS but if they were usually buried out there then he must of died here .

[nanny jan]

Hi,

This is the link to the CWGC entry found by Hackstaple

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/405628/HAINES,%20STANLEY%20FREDRICK



Nanny Jan

[blinky]

thankyou for that link ,i am planning to visit there one day to show my respects x

[forester]

The Ancestry info you accessed, I assume, was from Soldiers Died in the Great War. It is known to have numerous errors and several times I have found Home deaths down as France & Flanders.

Phil