I had a look on Ancestry yesterday. The CSM appears in a couple of trees. More importantly, his service record is amongst the "burnt records" there. There's a desperately poignant remnant of a letter from his wife asking for news of him, because she hasn't heard for a month and is very worried. The letter was dated 18 October 1918, but he'd died on 19 September 1918. The record also lists 5 living children at the time of his death, not 3.
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