Just wanted to give you some hope, with the help of TS i found a great researcher in London (I live in Australia so bit far to travel..
) he researched for me and then told me that my Dads records from the 6th HLI WW1 were available and at a very good cost he made copies and posted them to me in Aussie. They are quite hard to read but still got lots of information and just having them is wonderful. Also my Dad John Morton had two numbers, and I think it was because he enlisted when he was 16 years old and his Mother took him back home and 6 months later he was back to re enlist and on his way to war. Hope you get your records