Eddie: >From FreeBMD it appears that this is his birth and his mother's maiden name would be Crosby Births Dec 1948 Towler Michael Crosby Darlington 1a 341 His brother would be Births Sep 1945 Towler Peter S Crosby Darlington 10a 15 And there is no death listing for him in the GRO indexes up to 2006 www.192.com lists a number of Towler's in Co Durham but no Peter or P Towler Perhaps one of them may know of Peter or Michael. Mel Smith Whitby, Ontario, Canada -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eddie Tricker Sent: August 23, 2012 10:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SFK-UK] Assistance in finding an English Family G'day All I have an unusual request for help from all of you folks over there in England. The Australian and American Governments through their various agencies are planning on building a Vietnam Veterans Education Centre in Washington DC. This Centre will be situated near the now famous "Wall" monument. One of the features of this Centre for the Australian section will be a "wall of faces". A wall of photographs of all the Australians who lost their lives during the war in South Vietnam. To do this the Australian Department of Veteran's Affairs, (DVA), Office of Australian War Graves, (OAWG), section has approached Next Of Kin (NOK) of these dead soldiers for family photos and family information. Unfortunately the known NOK are very few, and DVA, OAWG have circulated a list of names of the soldiers without known NOK, to the Veteran Community asking for our assistance in tracking down these unknown NOK. Of the eight soldiers who died from my unit in South Vietnam, two had known NOK; another four I have been able to supply the names of NOK immediately; leaving only two without. Of these two remaining soldiers without NOK, today I found a younger brother of one, albeit an old man today. This leaves just one soldier from my unit who has no known Next Of Kin. This soldier is an English man, from Darlington, County Durham, England. He is Michael "Pommy" TOWLER. His Service number is: 2792254 Michael Towler was called up as a National Serviceman under the Australian National Service Act which was in vogue during the period about 1965 to 1972. He was conscripted in other words, into the Australian Army. There were lots of us. Michael Towler was 'killed in action' on the 12 June 1971. There is an army 'mug shot' of him at the web page url below, (page is arranged in alphabetical order by surname: http://www.hq1atf.org/honour3.htm I am asking for assistance and positive feedback on how I can locate a brother, (whom I am lead to believe was alive in about 1986 - 1988), who may still live in County Durham. I do not have any given names at this stage; only the surname of TOWLER. But as genealogical detectives, lots of us with many good years of experience, I had thought that one of you would be able to point me down a long narrow path that has a light at the end of it, that isn't a train comming to meet with me!!. thanks in anticipation regards eddie tricker ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message