First World War medal index cards held at The National Archives in series WO 372, matched against the people this record already holds. A card gives a surname, forenames, a rank and a corps — and no birth year at all, so it can suggest a person but never identify one.
Nothing is written to anybody here. Confirming records the card against the person; passing it says this is not them, and neither is offered again.
WO 372/ before it is offered — an unchecked search returns nurses' service files
and Chancery suits alongside the cards. A surname returning more than two thousand cards is
skipped rather than guessed at: nothing on a card could narrow it.