Hi Listers A short message of thanks to all who sent me advice on the above subject through the Forum; and to those who wrote to me "back channel" and offered to help by searching for my grandfather's records on Ancestry. A special thanks to Robert for this help in this area. But it is a fact that nothing exists of my grandfather's records of service! It is with faint hope that the International Committee of the Red Cross, may, just may, have some records on my grandfather, Charles, as he spent the bulk of his army service with them as a Prisoner of War. So this will be my next endeavour. thanks to all eddie tricker Australia