Barrie Bertram, a member of the Channel Islands Great War Study Group, has written to us seeking information about Horace Robert, or Robert Horace Champion, who was born in Jersey on 15 October, 1891, and who was killed in action in October, 1918.

IF any member of the Butters family are interested in learning about the family’s African connections, David Smith may be able to help them.

A WOMAN who has an interest in genealogy and likes reuniting people with lost of forgotten items has sent us a photograph believed to have been taken in Jersey in the late 1940s.

MICHAEL Bacon, who lives in Germany, is trying to trace an uncle Ernest who lived in Jersey in the early 1950s.

WE HAVE been sent a copy of a photograph in the hope that someone will be able to identify the woman and young girl featured.

CHANNEL Islands Great War Study Group member Barrie Bertram was recently sent the accompanying photograph, taken by A Laurens in Jersey during the Great War, and asks if any Islander can identify the faces and the occasion.

ISLANDERS are being invited to help write the history of Jersey on a new interactive webpage called Jerripedia.

IT WAS very much a family affair at Gorey Common recently when 110 members of the Labey family gathered for the first family picnic for 35 years.

A WOMAN whose parents were from Jersey will be in the Island with her two daughters this weekend in the hope of tracing members of their family.

MEMBERS of the de Gruchy family are being sought by the descendants of a man who served with distinction in both world Wars, who won an Oscar in the British film-making industry and who was made an OBE.

Fine art dealer John Falle is seeking information about an artist whose work was featured in an exhibition in Jersey nearly 40 years ago and which is now to be displayed in a major exhibition in Lyon.

As a member of the Midsomer Norton Society, Ann Noad is currently researching Hollies House, Midsomer Norton, a Grade 2 Georgian House.