I was at work today, doing my usual repetitive tasks and suddenly up pops a street name on a client's information page: Pozières Parade. Coincidence, or what?

I feel I should explain, that as far as I remember my father has never mentioned his Uncle Sidney or anything about an uncle dying in WWI in France, until a week ago, but now that he has talked about it I wanted to gather information about my Great Uncle and give it to my Dad.

Guest (19 May 08 - 04:53 AM), I didn't mean to imply that I wanted the info in time for Dad's birthday, it was just that when I went to write his age I realised that by the end of the week he would be 81 and not 80.

Tomorrow I'll be posting the request to the War Graves department so I'll see how long they say it will take. The website says that they prefer to take the photos in Spring, and it is the end of Spring this month, so maybe I'll get it sooner than 6 months or maybe I'll have to wait until later in the year.

Thanks again,
Helen