In a message dated 02/02/2004 22:20:08 GMT Standard Time, francis@wright334.fsnet.co.uk writes: > My Gt uncle Stanley Scott died ww 1 but all knowledge off him has been lost > He was born in Jarrow in 1895 his last know Address was the 1901 census > living > 118 ELLISON STREET JARROW ON TYNE he is not listed on the Commonwealth war > grave site and can find nothing about him we do not even know which regiment > he was in What I was looking for does anyone on the list live nearby and if so > could they look in the local church to see if his name is recorded there and > if so send it to me I know this is a lot to ask but it would be nice and > fitting to be able to record some info about him > Further to the earlier reply about him, it seems that perhaps you are hoping to find his name on a War Memorial. These are not only found "in" churches: they are found outside them, in the centres of towns and villages unconnected with any church, in public buildings such as Town Halls, Village Halls, etc and in private buildings such as Clubs, places of work - indeed anywhere from which people went to fight in WW1 or WWII or other 20th century Wars. Details of surviving ones may be found from the National War Memorial Survey. If what you were looking for was an entry in a parish burial register then you should seek the register via Durham County Record Office, who operate a reasonably-priced "look-up" service. If he died in WWI and was one of the few to be brought home (very few) then he may well have had a CWG headstone, and would have appeared on their list. If he died early in the War (before the Battle of the Somme, say) his death may have been reported in the local newspaper, perhaps even with a photograph - but that sort of thing stopped once it became clear that casualties were huge and publicising all of them would be bad for morale. Best wishes, Geoff Nicholson 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU (0191 417 9546) Professional Genealogist - Northumberland and Co Durham.