MISSING . . .
THE DAILY MAIL offers the opportunity to re-establish contact with long-lost relatives and friends. Each week, MONICA PORTER features the story of someone trying to find a missing loved one and a tale of people reunited. Produced in conjunction with the voluntary tracing service Searching For A Memory, run by Gill Whitley. ‘I WOULD appreciate it if you could locate my old drill instructor from the Grenadier Guards depot at Caterham in Surrey,’ writes 84-year-old Colin Jarvis from Bedford. ‘He was Lance Sgt Warner, first name Jack, I think. At the end of the course he called me over to congratulate me. I asked what for. “You were the tallest man in the squad, with the last name I could remember,” he replied. ‘I was doing National Service with the Guards from 1959-61. We did 13 weeks at Caterham before going on to six weeks of fieldcraft at Pirbright, again in Surrey. At the same time, there were squads from the other four regiments of foot guards doing the same. I then served at Tidworth, Wiltshire, and near Dusseldorf in Germany. After demob, I returned to the printing industry. ‘Lance Sgt Warner went on to have the honour of being one of the bearer party at Winston Churchill’s funeral. I’d like to contact him, but anyone else in the photo is welcome to get in touch for a possible reunion.’