Dear Rachel The Commonwealth War Graves Commission pages are probably your best option. http://www.cwgc.org This first page asks for name initial, service (ie army, navy/ etc, and WWI /II which automatically goes into the advanced search page together with all the names that fit your description. If the surname you are searching for is (say) Evans you may have a longish task ahead of you.  Service number - this should be given with the other details (place of burial etc). Note - officers appear not to have a service number, also non-fighting men/women such as stewards, VAD etc. Also, not all servicemen left wills. Anyway, hope you are successful. Jen ________________________________ From: "rachel-boyd@sbcglobal.net" <rachel-boyd@sbcglobal.net> To: "DYFED-L@rootsweb.com" <DYFED-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, 2 September 2013, 23:03 Subject: Re: [Dyfed] WWI - some soldiers' wills now available. 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 ================================ Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html  [Dec2012] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ================================ Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html [Dec2012] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Rachel, Another useful site for finding further details of the fallen, including service numbers is:- West Wales War Memorial Project http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/ if you know on which memorial your relative is likely to be commemorated. (Birthplace, residence, married address for example). This site covers Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire (Dyfed) and also has a section for "uncommemorated local men" Jen ________________________________ From: Jennifer Cairns <jenmathias@gmail.com> To: "rachel-boyd@sbcglobal.net" <rachel-boyd@sbcglobal.net>; "DYFED-L@rootsweb.com" <DYFED-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 9:22 Subject: Re: [Dyfed] WWI - some soldiers' wills now available. Dear Rachel The Commonwealth War Graves Commission pages are probably your best option. http://www.cwgc.org This first page asks for name initial, service (ie army, navy/ etc, and WWI /II which automatically goes into the advanced search page together with all the names that fit your description. If the surname you are searching for is (say) Evans you may have a longish task ahead of you.  Service number - this should be given with the other details (place of burial etc). Note - officers appear not to have a service number, also non-fighting men/women such as stewards, VAD etc. Also, not all servicemen left wills. Anyway, hope you are successful. Jen