Good Idea. If I get to Alnwick this week I'll check for an obit. I could do with some pickled gherkins from Aldi too.
A few years back I spoke to a chap called Jonathan Collins a well known researcher for us medal types and he told me there were disproportionate losses of NF service papers. This does seem the case now we can check them ourselves. So unfortunately they are few and far between.
Doing an "Amble" search on Ancestry in Draft & Enlistment papers it produces 116
Pension records search produces 56
with maybe a dozen spurious/duplicate results in there.
And these are all units, so quite a hopeless survival rate all round when you look at the amount of names on the Absent voters lists.
I don't know if these links will work:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...&uidh=vs3&so=2
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...&uidh=vs3&so=2
Officers' papers are a much better story with the bulk having survived, but they are not online yet. Regarding our man Casey though the chance is high that they are unavailable at the current time because his WW2 Home Guard service probably means they are still with the MoD.