Rachel, If you click on "Advanced search" there is a field for service number. Alternatively, if you know the approximate year, and the name is not Jones, or Thomas etc. then just try a number of years. It's easy then if you know it's WW1 or WW2. Dai On 02/09/2013 23:03, rachel-boyd@sbcglobal.net wrote: > It says you have to know the year of death. I don't know that for the fellow I'm interested in researching, but I do have his service number.. somewhere.. > Do you know offhand if there's a way of finding the date of death with the service number?? > Rachel Boyd > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jennifer Cairns <jenmathias@gmail.com> > To: "DYFED-L@rootsweb.com" <DYFED-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 12:58 PM > Subject: [Dyfed] WWI - some soldiers' wills now available. > > > Dear List > > https://www.gov.uk/probate-search > > > The Probate Service is making available the wills and last letters home of 280,000 soldiers who > died in the Great War. There is a charge of > £6 to download a document. It can take up to 10 days to have the document made available. (The will I was interested in took three days to be downloadable [.pdf file]) > Searching is quicker if you know the soldier's army number. > > Jen Cairns > >