19 NOVEMBER 1994, Page 20

Will of the week

Colonel Kenneth William Merrylees, of Blaize House, Church Street, Laven- ham, Suffolk, the water diviner, who worked during the second world war as a bomb-disposal expert when he used his dowsing skills to find bombs with delayed-action fuses deep in the ground, died on July 1st last, aged 97, leaving estate valued at £344,553 gross, £338,178 net. He left three heads of the Buddha and the head of his attendant to the Victoria and Albert Museum, they being dug up at the Stupa at Land' Kotal in the Khyber Pass by him at the invitation of Khan Bahadha Murah Khan, the Malik of the Shinwari.