next of kin on enlistment records

[DeeFM]

Thanks to all who replied.  My first time on rootschat and I've managed to make headway on two lines in my family thanks to the kind people who inhabit this space.  (I've made contact with an unknown-to-exist-until-yesterday 2nd cousin on another forum.)

Thanks Eddie, I have him in the 1911 census where his age is given as 22. 

I have searched for an immigration record unsuccessfully so thank you CarolW for that lead.  We were told that one of my grandfather's brothers (he came from a family of 15 children) came out to Australia but no-one seemed to know which one.  One we suspected I eventually found had died in Hanslope so we had to eliminate him.  Since Ernest is the only one I have not been able to locate in UK after 1911 I'm now thinking it may have been him.   Wish the age was 22 (his birthday was Jan-Mar) on the passenger list I'd be feeling more confident but what's a year here or there.  I'll start an electoral roll search asap which might flush him out.  Have just looked at WA marriage records and have found a marriage in 1913 that just might be our man.  I think I'll check on that first.

Andy,   I thought Forces War Records would be the way to go but I will have a look on ancestry just in case.

So many avenues to explore.
Thanks All

[andycand]

Hi

The Ernest Greaves who married Edna Murgatroyd in Western Australia in 1913 looks to have returned to England in 1926 with his wife and children, returning to Western Australia in 1927. The UK address on the passenger lists for 1926 and 1927 was Great Horton, Bradford, Yorkshire. There is a death for an Ernest Greaves age 74 in Western Australia in 1965, father Joshua, mother Ann.
The 1901 census has an Ernest Greaves born Pudsey, (which is in the Bradford Registration District) Yorkshire in 1890, son of Joshua and Ann. I think this is the Ernest Greaves who emigrated in 1911.

Andy

[DeeFM]

Well the Ernest who married Edna is definitely not mine.  My man's parents were Thomas and Mary Greaves/Graves.  So looks like that death certificate from Nuneaton might be my best option.  Oh well, we still don't know which brother came to Oz and if he stayed or returned or if it was all just a rumour.
Thanks Andy for taking the trouble to follow through further with that.