Appropriately, as the centenary of the 1918 Armistice looms, I am making great strides with the research into my great-uncle Fred's war service. I am finally piecing things together, to understand where he was and what he was probably doing during the four and a half years of that conflict. Luckily, Fred's war service records have survived and are held at the National Archives at Kew. And now that I have had a chance to view the records, the information they contain has given