Peter As a start Jack's WW2 service record is here www.ww2roll.gov.au , gives birthdate as 20 November 1921, place of birth as Yornaning, next of kin Martin Christensen. From here you can go to www.naa.gov.au to see if his service record is available on line yet. You may get some useful info about the family's residence in Yornaning and occupation in the WA Post Office Directories 1893-1949 http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/wa_history/post_office_directories A search in Trove reveals a letter written by 11 year old Jack to the Western Mail newspaper to join the kids' page and other letters he wrote in the page, which reveal some interesting details about his life such as how far he had to walk to school, how he had 3 brothers and 4 sisters, one of his sisters was named Mary and another possibly Daisy, even a short story he wrote "Joey's birthday party" A google search for Jack Sejer Christensen brings up the Three Springs database http://www.carnamah.com.au/t7.html with these entries Mrs Flora Josephine CHRISTENSEN Resided on Victoria Location 10207 in Eneabba via Three Springs for at least the years 1962-1965 [19] Jack Sejer CHRISTENSEN Farmer of Victoria Location 10207 in Eneabba via Three Springs for at least the years 1962-1965 [19] [19] - WA Legislative Assembly Electoral Rolls 1904-2005 extraction by Jill Tilly (2008) Hopefully this helps a little in your search for your WA family Jenny "Peter O'Brien" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Hi Marg > > Of course you're right, it was remiss of me not to include some dates. > > Jack Sejer CHRISTENSEN was born in WA in 1921. > > He was the son of Anna HANSEN and Martin CHRISTENSEN, who married in WA in > 1915. > > Jacob HANSEN was Anna's brother and I know all about him (he was my > grandfather). > > The mystery is the family of Anna, who I believe are all in WA. Anna > travelled to Australia from Denmark in approx. 1910-1914 and she lost > contact with Jacob after that and I'm trying to re-establish contact > between the two families. >