This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mYSBAEB/280.1 Message Board Post: Eileen In the UK...we would try the local newspaper...I have just found my dad's old army comrade after 60 years through a letter to a newspaper --- after years & years of searching on line! Do try the Salvation Army too? If anyone can find him they can. Good luck