THE grieving families of soldiers who died while stationed at Britain's largest Army camp are calling for others to come forward to join the fight for a public inquiry.

Lynn Farr has set up a website dedicated to the memories of 19 soldiers who were the victims of non-combatant deaths at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, between 1995 and 2001.

It features the deaths of Allan Sharples, who died in April 2000 from a gunshot wound, Richard Robertson, who was killed on a nightshoot in 1995, and William Beckley-Lines, who collapsed and died on exercise in 1998.

The families have joined the parents of the Deepcut Four, which include Geoff Gray, of Seaham, County Durham, in calling for a public inquiry into all non-natural deaths in the UK, a move supported by The Northern Echo.

Mrs Farr's son, Daniel, a private serving with the Prince of Wales Own Regiment of Yorkshire, died in June 1997, a year after he arrived at Catterick.

He died in St James' Hospital, in Leeds, where he had been transferred from the Friarage Hospital, inNorthallerton, suffering from pneumonia and complaining of pains in his leg.

Mrs Farr said: "The specialist told us he had never seen anything like it before. He said if it was an elderly man who had abused his body all his life he could understand, but not in a fit young soldier.

"In the 18 months after Daniel died there were four other sudden deaths."

A few months after Daniel's death Mrs Farr was approached by a complaints officer for the Community Health Council, at Catterick Hospital, who was a former Army officer.

"He said that in this day and age you just don't die of pneumonia and would I like him to make inquiries. Unfortunately, at that time it was too new and I declined," she said.

Mrs Farr said it had been hard to obtain information from the Ministry of Defence about Daniel's death and the other three deaths.

She said: "There have got to be some genuine deaths but we do not know why there is so much secrecy.

"We never get to know the full facts, the more you ask the more they close up.

"An inquiry is not going to bring these lads back but it may stop other young people dying. There are far too many."

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: "While current police investigations at Deepcut is ongoing we do not think it would be appropriate to hold a public inquiry."

Lynn Farr can be contacted via the website at http://freespace.virgin.net/lynn.farr/index.htm