CASE CLOSED (AT LAST!)

For a long time now, the tantalising thought that there might be a vital ‘mystery’ document somewhere, that could help Kerr Clement learn more about his father’s step-father, has kept him curious, but perplexed. Here we relate the unfolding steps, that eventually led to the answer he needed. As is the case so often with genealogy ‘brick walls’, it’s not a case of smashing them down, but of finding a way around them.

Kerr Clement had long been trying to find out: ‘What were the papers that his father’s mother showed to the recruiting officer in WW2 to