Hi Frances
I did approach the DHSS to see if they would send me a copy of the proof he supplied when he started to draw his pension, I expected to be told that under the data protection act they couldn't do that, I was astonished when they told me that all your records are destroyed within a month to 6 weeks of your death. To confuse matters more he was born as Louis Henry Jones and later took the name of Cowell from Wm and Elizabeth Cowell who brought him up