I WAS wondering if you could help me and my family, by running a story about my lost grandfather.

Hopefully by printing the story we will be able to contact with relatives in the Lancashire area that could put the puzzle together for us.

We have just found out that our grandfather was born in Preston or the St Helens area and joined the Royal Navy and served as a waggon driver at the age of 18 or so.

He married at the age of 20 to Margaret Norris in Sydney, Australia in 1945, when my father was two years old.

We think he had to leave Australia to return to the UK due to the fact of being in the Royal Navy and I haven't heard from him since. In 1945 it was the end of the Second World War and chances are he had a safe trip home.

We don't know if he had other children or even if he is dead or alive. His name is Albert Lynch and his mother's name is Ada Pickervance and his father was Albert Lynch (who was deceased in 1945) and I believe the Pickervances are in Lancashire.

With such an unusual surname of Pickervance I made numerous overseas phone calls but with no outcome.

I am sure that someone would know of them or know of there whereabouts, or find brothers/sisters aunts and uncles or even cousins, as we have no other family here in Australia.

Louanne Grasmeder (nee Lynch), NSW, Australia.