Hi Liz
Thank you for this information,
Not sure if her husband is dead but beleive Beryll died only in the last 7 -8 years.
I do not usually search for living people but my reason for this line of research
is that Beryll was engaged to my second cousin who was a fighter pilot killed in December 1940.
His family was from Malaya so I do not think they would have attended his funeral, in fact they only received his medals lat year.
Because of this and the fact he although Cecil Reginald Young he was known as Charlie, his mother being Scottish. So he is buried as P/O Charlie Young.
I have been researching him and have found out a lot about him. He had a mascot dog , car, motorbike etc and I assume that Beryll may have got them as well as his personal belonging. Part of his personal belongings may have been his logbook and other items about his time in the Battle of Britain and it is these that I am interested in.
There is no record of his action on the day of his death, but from his school magazine we are told he chased german fighters out to sea. We know from records that several german fighters were shot down by persons that day at the right time, by unknown squadron, it was a pilot from the same German squadron that claimed Charlie.
It has been a very interesting two years research and to find if Beryll may have had some more information would be great, but of course she may never have had it or indeed kept it after she married.
Rgds
Drew Davidson