Wow, I'm overwhelmed already by the replies to my post yesterday... wouldn't have thought to look for Lugfield....
Had the attestation papers for both Walter and William and noted the Perrin friend as next of kin
--- the McQuade reference is new....
If my memory serves me correctly, I think on the attestation paper for one of the brothers said parents deceased but I was told by one of Walter's daughters that birthdate on their father was wrong (too young to enlist, so lied) and that maybe parents not deceased; he possibly just didn't want to give name of anyone who might confirm a birthdate. (BTW, Walter's family in the US knew even less than I did when I started all this)...
Couldn't find any reference to marriage of William and Ethel, Karen, so you're one up on me....... again...
Hmmm... WHAT ELSE DO I KNOW? Well the gentleman at the BHC center in Ottawa did a British census look up for me for 1901 and came up with a William and a Walter in the home of a Frank and Eliza Layfield in Manchester--birthdates were off a bit, but aside from that, things *seemed* a fit..... I went on to Rootsweb and posted a query to find information/descendants of this family and got a reply from a descendant--turned out that their Walter and William were fully accounted for in England, married, kids, etc.... so not a fit at all---(Unless there was a coverup by the family).
Walter left Canada to go to the US, and I did find indications of border crossings into the US.
Not sure if Evelyn Gough and William Layfield were actually married... the really old address in my father's address book still listed her as Gough--in Woking Surrey. I believe she had a daughter--Wendy--before she met William (I think, Mrs David Easton). (I'm just trying to match names in the address book with some pictures that dad had--not identified very well)
With reference to Chuck Zasada, that could be a possibility-- birthdate, I think, should have been in that range, and the address in my father's address book is in Gloucestershire.
The very old address I have for Sylvia Shaw is in Oxfordshire.
That is the sum total of any factual information I might have. I am currently awaiting receipt of a copy of William's military record---and just as soon as I figure out how to get a copy of his marriage certificate, I will be onto that as well. I have also ordered copies of his record from the Barnardo Centre in England--they tell me the wait is 6-9 months, so I only have 5-8 months left to wait.
Thanks to everyone for your help so far... I really am overwhelmed that there were so many responses so soon... I'm used to waiting months/years for replies to queries (have been working on my mother's family for a very long time as well). Thanks again.