Hi Jeff You have a bit of a mountain to climb unfortunately There are 65 John GREYs in the medal cards index and 750 John GRAYs, without knowing the Regiment the only possible identifier is if the address is mentioned (only approx 2% have an address listed) If he joined up at the start of the War there is more likelihood of him joining a Durham regiment but that is by no means certain Only approximately one third of service records survived WW2 (ironically) so it can be pot luck if your mans survived Do you have anything at all on him, photo's, medals, post cards, family stories etc, try and examine all avenues to see if there is a Regiment mentioned which would narrow the field If you have access to Ancestry, check through the service records to see if there is anything to latch onto, next of kin for example (they are not fully indexed so you need to look through a few pages of each) If you don't have it yourself your local library is very likely to have it You will be able to discount some by birthplace or age but there are still many to look through Or if you have an LDS FHS near you, the LDS have the service records on fiche so you could order them in there Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > Hello > Looking to start a search into a relitve that was in the WW1 about 1914 > to the end .Came from the Weardale area of Durham. Apart from his name and > birth John Grey/Gray born 24 April 1896 Stanhope, I do not know his > regiment or where station during his time. > Jeff