Ann, Thank you for the reference to Martin Sugarman¹s book. I have just joined the mailing list so this is all quite new to me. I have recently discovered that the oldest of my father¹s brothers (from a family of nine) served in the Duke of Cornwall¹s Light Infantry and died in 1916 in the Great War at the age of 19 (he was one of the first to enlist in 1914), and I have found the location of his war grave in Picardie. Those of my generation with parents born in the first decades of the 20th century might well have close relatives who served in the Great War - many of them were the children of the great wave of immigrants from Poland and Lithuania at the end of the 19th century. This is the case with my grandparents, who arrived from Lithuania in the early 1890s. I have also discovered that one of my cousins ­ the son of another of my father¹s older brothers ­ served in the British Navy during World War II, and was on the King George V when it sank the Bismarck. Best wishes, Liz Greene