Thanks Anne Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:48:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Anne Maye <[email protected]> Subject: [AUS-VIC] John Kelly and Edward Kelly To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Re the above query. Groom would have been his occupation at the time. He was a groom working for someone who had horses. Dis means he was discharged from the Police Force at that time. Similar to a discharge from the army. It is not a negative term. Just means he left to do something else. Anne Maye