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Thanks everyone for your responses.  Kyt and Wendi for the web sites.

Liverpool Annie - what a little monkey you are.  Fancy taking advantage of a poor little lad a long way from home and taking what may have been his last gum.    Seriously now I have a  distant cousin in USA (found by doing family history) whose uncle was at all 3 of the airfields I mentioned but he is rather an old boy now of course and it is is not too clear how long and when he was at these places.   His neice thought it would be good to find out anything really.  What if he was the one with the gum!!!!!!!

Cheers
Kath

Leeds City Council, Cemeteries/Crematoria Section, Lawnswood Crematorium, Otley Road, Leeds LS16 6AH.

If you write to this address giving as much info as possible about the grave you seek this department covers all Leeds Cemeteries.  They were very helpful to me recently.

The Friends of Becket Street Cemetery has a website - www.becketstreetcemetery.org.uk.  Once you establish that there is a grave there the site is very useful in helping to locate.

Leeds Central Library has an index of Becket St Burials.  If you are unable to go there yourself the staff may undertake a short search.  The email address is local.studies@leeds.gov.uk.
If you live in the Leeds area other libraries may also have this index.  It is worth checking.

If going to the cemetery would be difficult, once you have the details, email me offsite and I will try and go for you.

Good hunting

Yorky

Hello Ann
Hope you are having some success with your search.   If all else fails the British Legion should be able to help.  Even if it is only to put you in the right direction.

My dad was in the army in WW2 and wore the same sort of cap your dad is wearing in the photo on his own.  My hubby was a 1950s soldier and tells me that the cap is called a forage cap.  All non Scottish army regiments would have forage caps.  I don't suppose this little bit of info will help your search but it is interesting.

In the photo taken with one other chap, they are sitting on a wall with fancy wrought iron work which looks like fleur de lys or Prince of Wales Feathers design.  This might help to identify the place it was taken.

If you think it was Isle of Wight why not send a copy of the photo to the main library on the island.    You never know.

Also if you are in the UK - try teletext on Channel 4.  It has a free Service Pals feature.  You can post messages.  Page 152.   If you are not in UK I will do it for you if you like.  Send me a private message with all the details.

Bye
Kath(Yorky)

My Wiltshire ancestors were named BLIZZARD. Probably in Malmesbury.  Only first name I am sure of is Sam or Samuel.

Many thanks in anticipation.

Yorky