This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beeso Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mNC.2ACE/2433.2 Message Board Post: The name Michael John Beeso who died in Vancouver in 1971 is too much of an uncanny match not to follow up. Your grandfather may have married before he entered the service. Many Albertans retired to the west coast of Canada in British Columbia, particularly Vancouver and Victoria. http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes Suggest you get a copy of his CEF papers from the National Archives. Will give you info about his next of kin (usually parents or spouse) and info if he married in England while in the service. http://www.archives.ca/02/020106_e.html