[paulmcmillan]

I would prefer full details whenever know and including Service number and full detail..

There are a number of online sources that can be utilized to try and tie down first names

1) Officers and those that were later commissioned may be found by seraching London Gazette via Serial number (if known) and name (if you have the time) or better if the name is 'unusual'


e.g.

Pilot Officer Peter Melvill GARDNER (40527).

Flight Lieutenant Ian Scovil SODEN (33289)

Of course some of this info may also be available on CWGC if they died..

There is also the GPO Overseas Deaths lists (available also on line from some ancestry databases_ . In this case..


Soden Ian S. F/Lt 33289 56 Sqn 1940


There are also online birth registration indexes - such as findmypast


Which indicates that in 1912 a Rene A Albonico was born in Kingston Surrey

The point I am making, is that if you don't have a ful name.. Put what you do have up on here and someone may be able to work it out....