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kinnethmont · Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 121 Location: aberdeenshire

Tony

The parents will have no involvement with the RCE, it is a legal / court record. To describe her as Cecilia Cochrane Edmund or Sunshine is quite normal. The original entry should detail this marriage, but in a different way.
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Tonym · Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 91 Location: East Sussex

Jim

So the comment above -QUOTE - "legal enquiry is made and the Fiscal or Sherriff will give a written statement which is used for the RCE." would suggest that an enquiry was undertaken, I assume to ascertain the cause of the gunshot?

So is it possible that there is more than the one page of the RCE that I have and would an enquiry to the Procurator Fiscal, Edinburgh result in my receiving a copy of that report, probably at cost?

Tony

DerekR · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 809 Location: Hawick

A copy of her RCE will be available at New Register House - and that they simply haven't uploaded it onto their on-line service.
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kinnethmont · Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 121 Location: aberdeenshire

Tony

I checked, the RCE is the usual single page. I am not sure how her death came about. I would expect suicide or something criminal to have been detailed, so must assume it was deemed to have been some sort of accident.

I doubt any legal papers relating to the Fiscal's " enquiries " will be available. A letter to the Fiscal at Haddington can do no harm.
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Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Tonym · Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 91 Location: East Sussex

A response from GRO, New Register House includes the following =

An RCE reflects the findings of the Procurator Fiscal and the court regarding as here , a sudden or violent death etc. I would gather from the fact that there is nothng added or changed that the pathologist concurred with the original cause of death, and the Procurator was satisfied.

So, for a peaceful night's sleep, I shall accept that it was accidental.

Tony

gourdongirl · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:42 am Post subject:

SUNSHINE, CECILIA COCHRANE
Initials: C C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Auxiliary Territorial Service
Age: 19
Date of Death: 13/09/1942
Service No: W/121460
Additional information: Daughter of George and Helen Edmond, of Prestonpans.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Sec. J. Grave 756.
Cemetery: PRESTONPANS NEW CEMETERY