Hi All: A Death Certificate from a "Service Department's Register" may not have as much information as an ordinary English Death Certificate, and Diane may have to search for a notice of his death in the local papers (Stockton area) which will probably mention his parents, to confirm that the 1944 death is the right one. He is on the Misc. fiche F266 for Army OR (Other Ranks), WWII: Thomas W. PATTERSON Spr RE 14252136 - 1944, vol 10 p 282 The Miscellaneous fiche (c1000+) have Overseas BDM, and also Army BDM in the Army Chaplains and Regimental seris. While the Army Chaplains BDM are overseas, the Regimental births have quite a few in Britain eg Aldershot & Woolwich. NB: no Navy or Air Force equivalents. When I got an English Death Certificate for a 1900 Boer War death, it just had Surname & Initial plus Date & Place of Death. No Age or Parents. This one did not even have a Regimental Number. Yours, John Wilson PS: Scan avaliable of the Certificate for Fox if you email me off-list. It is headed "Casualty Lists of the Natal and South Africa Field Forces 1899-1902, Brabant's Horse, 1st Regiment": Regimental No - blank Rank - Trooper Name - FOX, J Casualty - Killled Place - Vaalkoop Date - 23 Aug 1900 Remarks - blank Issued under the Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957. The bottom says "Certified to be a true copy of the certified copy of an entry made in a Service Departments Register, Given at the General Register Office ..." etc. with seal of GRO, England. NB: New Zealand WWII (& earlier ie WWI, Boer War) Services personnel records are avaliable to anyone if the serviceman or servicewomen has died. No restrictions to next of kin only (Britain) or death plus 20 years (Canada). > Hi Diane, > Did your search include the GRO WAR DEATHS ARMY OTHER RANKS > (1939 to 1948) index ? > > > Hi All: > > > > I'm new to this list and hope someone can help. > > > > My late dad's brother was born in Stockton in 1922. I was told that he > died in the army. > > > > On the Common Wealth War Graves there is a Thomas William Patterson who > died 24th December 1944, I think that this could possibly be him as he is > the only one who has no next of kin detailed. > > > > However, I have not been able to find a record of his death with St. > Catharine's Index, so therefore I cannot verify it. > > > > I am not the next of kin, there is still a brother and sister alive, we > have no contact and believe that they would not want us to look into it. > > > > Has anyone got any suggestions of where to go. > > > > Diane Patterson > > Teesside > > England > >