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Thank you to Trooper 922 for contacting me to let me know that he had my great uncles WW1 1915 star! I was like a giddy kid when I found out!! what a star!

I am still trying to locate the Victory medal, so please please if there are any collectors out there that own or know how to locate this i would be so grateful to find it. it would mean that when I go to Thiepval in 2016 which will be exactly 100 years from his death that I can wear the medals he bravely earned in giving his life at 20 years old!

Hi everyone,
thanks for all your help (topic above)
I found the grave for my great grandmother at King Cross Methodist Burial Site thanks to the help of Melia's for the grave number and everyones advice on here, because if I hadnt googled key words in the first place then this forum would have never been known to me and its a great forum. In particular I would like to thank Drewhowson, what a remarkable man he is!
It transpires that my great grandmother is burried in the same grave as two of her sons, daughter in law, grandson and great nephew, and none of the relatives left i.e 3 grandaughters knew this. The headstone was replaced in around 1963 by my mothers mother and it seems that the info must not of been known as my mother seems certain that her mother would not have ommited these details from the headstone on purpose.

The grave was known to us and i found this a few years ago, however the missing part of the jigsaw was that we did not now my greatgrandmother was here too, so I was extremely surprised when Dewhowson sent a map and description of where the grave was from the grave number I had given to him as recorded by Melias. Even when I returned to the grave on Sunday I still expected the directions to lead to another grave, thinking "she cant possibly be at the same grave and no-one knew"
So my thanks go to each and everyone of you for all your help. I now need to find out whether a name can be added to a headstone and to what cost and what permissions are required. 

Many thanks for all your advice Dob's.

When it gets to the time to go in search i will take very good care and follow all your advice. 

Beverly

Hi, im new to this hence the user name but can anyone help me locate a grave in this cemetry. Im trying to find the grave of my great grandmother Betty Gomersal who died aged 61 in 1899, Halifax.  telephoned Melias and they have given me the grave number as 450 in the King Cross Methodist graveyard. The lady I spoke to said this grave was in the 'old Graveyard' ?? I asked where abouts that was but she didnt know and Mr Melia was on holiday.
I have other relatives burried in a family grave who passed in 1940's and which I have found to be located towards the bottom of the graveyard (where you come through the 'snicket' at the side of the methodist church and it joins a pathway which runs along the top of what I would deep as to the left the bottom part of the grave yard, there are big gates here and a little futher along on the left is a small gate where the graves are in steps leading downward.
Im assuming the 'old part' of the graveyard is at the top adjacent to where the 'snicket' runs and if walking down from the main road (with the fire station opposite) can be located on the left??
I hope my feable attempt at dircetions makes sense to anyone knowing this graveyard that may be able to help me out here.