I hope I'm not unduly highjacking this thread, but I feel so happy I've just got to do it anyway.

I've always vaguely known that I had a great-uncle who emigrated to Canada then joined up and was soon killed in WW1, but not knowing his regiment or other details and with only a common name Harry Hunt to go on I never really knew how to track him down.

By following the links in the posts above, it took me just a few minutes to find him. I now know his date of enlistment and all sorts of details, his date of death and the location of his war grave (Maroc Cemetry, near Bethune, Northern France). Gotta go there.

There is also the facility to upload a photo onto the official Canadian website, which I will do as soon as I can digitise the old photo I've got in the attic.

I even found out he had a tattoo of clasped hands on his arm. I'm sure nobody else in our quiet, respectable upper-working to lower-middle class family ever had one of those. But then, nobody else had the get-up-and-go to start a new life in Canada. It's all a great shame, but at least he was the only one of five brothers to die young.

So, thanks Mudcat ! (Result, or what?)