Marg, thank you very much for your advice on BMD dates, and Kerry has suggested a site that may help. The service side of things has been brilliant, I even have the chap's service record on order. Real objective is to trace any remaining relations who might hold family memories and/or photos. Yes, am very familiar with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site. I must say that the Awm Naa and WW2Roll sites are an object lesson to us Poms in how to have service details available on line! Cheers Dave [email protected]