Hi List, We need some help please. A friend of ours is flying to Europe in 2 days and want's to know where they can find the burial site of their Grandfather Alexander VAILE {flight Sgt RAF in WW1} Air force Number 1651 Received MSM medal father was bn Fulham Was shot down in France and buried there. Any help would be Greatly Appreciated Thank you Barbara bardus@xtra.co.nz

Barbara, Here's the site for Commonwealth War Graves http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14 But there is no record of Alexander Vaile. I'd check your facts. It could be a brother who died. An Alexander Vaile #1651 served in RFC in WWI but medal cards seem to indicate he received medals in 1920. Free BMD has only one Alexander Vaile b1890 in Fulham, who marries Teresa Evans in 1917 at Paddington and has a son Alexander F in Sept 1919, which is after the war ended. Peter in Sydney

There is no record under that surname/ initial on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site as far as I can see. There was a HENRY BURTHAN VAILE husband of Emily Florence Vaile killed in 1944 . There is one Laurence Edward Stuart VAILE of the Royal Flying Corps who died in 1917 but he is buried at Narborough (All Saints churchyard) presumably England. Son of Jeannette & the late Arthur Vaile. If he was shot down in France he may have been buried by locals in their vilage churchyard so I think you would need more than 2 days to research! Good Luck Marlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb & Dusty Miller" <bardus@xtra.co.nz> To: "Bedfordshire List" <BEDFORD@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:20 PM Subject: [BDF] Burial site > Hi List, > > We need some help please. > A friend of ours is flying to Europe in 2 days and want's to know where > they > can find the burial site of their Grandfather > > Alexander VAILE {flight Sgt RAF in WW1} Air force Number 1651 Received MSM > medal > father was bn Fulham > Was shot down in France and buried there. > > Any help would be Greatly Appreciated > > Thank you > Barbara > bardus@xtra.co.nz > > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEDFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Further to Peter's note, I also checked CWGC - there is a Lawrence VAILE, Royal Flying Corps (precursor of the RAF). Could there have been brothers whose names were mixed up in later years? Pamela ----- Original Message ----- > > Alexander VAILE {flight Sgt RAF in WW1} Air force Number 1651 Received MSM > medal > father was bn Fulham > Was shot down in France and buried there. > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEDFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >