Thanks John, Mum & I had noticed in our search on the net that it referred to 1942 and now re-reading the letter we think she may have meant that his 21st birthday was in 1941, not that he died in 1941. We had also noticed it was a land battle which confused us looking at the CWGC entry we thought it could have been. If there are no William MARSHs, are there any JARVIEs buried at El Alamein Cemetery? I know his mother remarried a JARVIE but don't know when. Perhaps he had his name (or JARVIE was even his father). I have put those sites under my Military favourites! Thankyou so much for your help, Deb. (Australia) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wilson" <hugo@actrix.gen.nz> To: <WORLDWAR2-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:36 PM Subject: [WORLD WAR II] Re: English Death El-Alamein - MARSH - 1942 not 1941 > Hi Deb: > > For the Battle of El Alamein you should be checking the CWGS for > 1942 not 1941, as the First Battle of El Alamein was July 1942, and > the (notable) Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942. See the > Timeline for the North African Campaign, well remembered in New > Zealand (we had a Member of Parliament called Alamein Kofu): > http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/north-africa/time-line.html > > But there was not a William ... Marsh in the El Alamein Cemetery. > > El Alamein was a land battle; see re HMS Mashona when William > Eric MARSH died: > http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4431.html > > Yours, John Wilson (New Zealand) >