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Australia / Re: UK Citizen Death in Aus
« on: Wednesday 18 October 23 19:17 BST (UK) »Have you tried searching for him in U.K. overseas deaths? As Dundee has said, there is a limitation on available Australian death records but his death might also be registered on U.K. end. [ SNIP]Thank you for this and I've finally managed to nail him. I used the above FindMyPast link which didn't find anything, but FindMyPast helpfully suggested I search the Newsapaper archive and produced a list of finds with the same name, the first of which covered details of his wedding. If it covered his wedding - the bride would be (just) in their circulation area - then maybe it covered his death, so I restricted the search to the same newspaper.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-deaths-and-burials?ds_kid=39700048641132052&&&&&gad=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoOiW8Zj9gQMVM4loCR1Hawh6EAAYASAAEgIYh_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
I found his death in 1996 not in the 1980s as I had been led to believe. Also it was while he was on the way to Australia and having a stopover in Singapore. The dangers of relying on anecdotal information but sometimes that's all we have to go on.
This would also explain why I couldn't find him earlier since I was limiting the search to 1994. I thought I had allowed a reasonably broad date range but it just goes to show.
Full details of his death are inside the paper so now to do some further exploration. Not sure if FindMyPast has copies of full editions, if not the BL should have them. Now I know when he died I should also be able to find probate details.
Many thanks to all for the help.