Hello Lionel,

Thank you very much for those interesting websites, especially the history on White Pine,
Nevada.

I had previously been in touch with Nevada Vital Records and the WP County Recorder who was very helpful, but unable to trace
anything for him. I have written to the Recorder again now to see whether she has
lists for the deaths to the influenza epidemic or whether she can advise who may have, although I imagine that many deaths would have gone unrecorded.

The Spanish Influenza epidemic did not occur to me at all, but when you think of it, if something like that hit the mining camps, it would be almost impossible to contain it.
World wide WW1 claimed 16 million lives and the 1918 influenza epidemic killed 50 million - a terrible toll.

George Herbert QUILLIAM remains a mystery for me. He did not return to the I.o.M. He doesn't show up in Wisconsin records either, so he didn't go to join his brother John CORRIN there, and there was still plenty of work going at Ward Mine where he was, so no need really, to move on.

There is a great site, www.abmc.gov which is the American Battle Monuments Commission and by searching by "State" and "All" cemeteries, it turned up 43 casualties for Nevada, some of whom only served a few months before being killed. They list over 33,000 casualties, but say that there were 116,516 Americans lost in WW1.

I'll keep looking and I know that as time goes by more and more information becomes available.
Once again thank you for your response.

Marjery,
in New Zealand