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I`m trying to find out more about my grandmother`s half-brother Albert Edward Fletcher (known as Ted) who was born in 1890 in Aston. In 1911 he is living with his parents Albert and Elizabeth Ann in Aston Manor and he spent the war in the 2nd Birmingham Battalion. My dad told me that Ted worked...

thanks very much Janice. Yes you are right Dorothy did marry Reg Rose and my grandmother lived with them after my mum Joan left home to get married.

thanks Janice, I didn`t know that. Shortly after the War the house was passed on to my parents so you might find them - Joan and Edward Howell

thankyou Mike. Sometime between 1939 and 1947 she lived at 16 Southwold Avenue, Kings Norton. Is it possible to find out when she was there?

Does anyone have access for the electoral roll for 99 Cecil Road between 1931 and 1939? My widowed grandmother Jane Hayden lived there with my mum and aunt, and I`m trying to find out if there were anymore adults living there

Yes, their first daughter died from meningitis when she was only 2 and I think that devastated them both for a long time. Maybe that is another reason why he didn`t want to be away from home

On the 1911 census my grandfather (William Henry Lyles Hayden) is described as an assayer working in the "Sweep and Bullion" industry. I have previously been told that he was involved in extracting precious metals from waste and my mother remembered him working in a foundry. Have I got that...

My grandfather was in the 15th Battalion Royal Warwicks - also known as the 2nd Birmingham Battalion. His service number was 537. What does that actually mean in terms of when he enlisted? Was he the 537th man to enlist in that particular battalion?

I`m afraid I have given up on reading the war diary. As Janice mentioned, only officers are mentioned by name. I think Birmingham Library might have a copy of the Book of Honour. Does anyone know if they would do research on my behalf? I am not able to visit

I`ve now managed to find and download the War Diary for the 15th Battalion from the National Archives so I will wade through that and see if I can find anything about him

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I don`t know anything about his injury other than that he changed regiment after it and became a PT instruction

That`s what I`ve got Janice. I was hoping there might be more information in the actual book but I could be clutching at straws!

I have just discovered via Findmypast that my grandfather Edward Laurence Howell is in the Birmingham City Battalions Book of Honour. He joined 15th Battalion, Royal Warwicks. By any chance does anyone have access to this Book? I have his Medal Index record but think his actual service record...

Well, I have got the death certificate and it is rather sad reading. It says that Albert died 12 June 1944 at Sutton Coldfield hospital. Cause of death being "Shock due to multiple inuries caused by throwing himself from a railway bridge. Suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed" It...

Gosh - you`re all amazing! Yes, you have found the right man. My parents were Edward L Howell and Joan Hayden. I have sent for Albert`s death certificate so will let you know if I find out more. Albert and his wife had a complicated history. He was 14 years younger than her and I think started...

Thankyou everyone, that`s all very interesting. He actually died in1922 from liver cancer. I wonder if being in contact with all of those chemicals had anything to do with it. Just out of interest, does that building still exist? Is it what I have heard called "Fort Dunlop"?

In 1911 my gt-grandfather was working as a curer at the "Rubber Works, Aston" Could anyone give me more information about this? At the time he lived in Apna Place, Cato Street, Saltley

Just wondering if this still exists. My grandmother lived at number 36. I have tried googling it but it looks like those houses might have been pulled down

I am trying to find out more about my grandmother`s step-father who I believe took his own life in 1944. As this was still classed as an illegal act at that time, would it have affected where he was buried? His wife was buried in Witton Cemetery

My father remembered being told that his mother`s step-father had taken his own life during WW2. His name was Albert Fletcher and I have found a possible death for him on FreeBMD for June 1944 in Sutton Coldfield. The listed age is right. The last known address I have for him was on the...