Greetings to the List - I'm new to the list, and not a genealogist as such, but a researcher and collector to the King's Royal Rifle Corps. I'm currently working to develop information on William Edwin PRISTO. The PRISTO family name is an unusual and scarce name in the U.K. - indeed there are only nine men, women, and children with the name in the 1881 British census returns, and the family seems to be centred on the Isle of Wight. Wm E. PRISO's parents were William and Louisa E. A. (née DENEIGE) PRISTO. William was born at Whippinham, Louisa was a French national. In the 1901 census, WP was a 35 year old architectural draughtsman, and was living at East Cowes. WEP was born in 1895 at East Cowes, IOW. He served with the 60th (London) Divisional Cyclist Company as No. 13435 Sergeant W. E. PRISTO, with the XVIII Corps Cyclist Battalion of the Army Cyclist Corps as No. 10 Sergeant W. E. PRISTO. He was commissioned in the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 29 August 1917. Posted to the 10th (Service) Bn KRRC, he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Germans on 30 November 1917, and was not released until after the end of the war. He married at St. Mildred, Whippingham in 1919 a Beatrice E. RUSSELL, and had at least two daughters I believe. He also authored a history of the London Cyclist Company for its' Old Comrades Association in 1935. During WWII WEP served once again, this time in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Lieutenant. He was still in service in August of 1945. If anyone on the list has an interest in the PRISTO family, I'd be happy to share what information I have, and would welcome any and all help in fleshing out this man's story. I'd be especially interested to know if there might be information in the local papers on his capture and release as a POW, and in knowing what became of the man and his family. Irv Mortenson Sequim, Washington USA