Tracing a Death certificate.

[aljepeka]

Trying to find the actual date my father-Edward William Reynolds died, so I can apply for his death certificate. his death was registered in Dartford, Kent, in the month of June-1975. Any ancestry site I've checked will only give me the month/year.

[Galium]

Two possible ways of finding the date are:
1) checking local newspapers of the time for an announcement. These may be archived by the local library.
2) if you think he might have made a will you can buy a copy from the probate registry:
  http://www.ancestor-search.info/NAT-Probate.htm

The section on postal searches has a link for the form, which you will need to print and send by post with a £10 fee. If you do this, make sure that you tick the box asking for a grant of probate as well as a will copy, as this will give the date of death. The form asks for the address of the testator, but you don't actually need a full address, (unless your search is for a name  that more than one person dying around the same time is likely to have). Usually the town is enough. Nor do you need to give a precise date of death, as the office will search for four years from whatever you give as the earliest possible date.

[Jebber]

You don't need the exact date, all you need is his name, the Registration district Dartford, 1975, June, volume 16, page 0960.

[dawnsh]

If you are applying online with the GRO, enter 'yes' when the system asks if the GRO reference is known.

If you say no, then you are asked for more details on the application, such as the actual date.

You will also be asked for his age as the event occured in the last 50 years, you can see his date of birth on any of the subscription sites that host the GRO death index and work it out accordingly.