Thank you Admin for a warm welcome to this list. My interest in my wife's grandfather James Edmund STEWART born about 1880 in Belfast area Father James Mother Mary Apprenticeship at Harland and Wolfe as Shipwright. Married before 1907 Matilda (Jean) COLLINS Royal Navy WWI. I think he was in the RN Reserve. He is not listed as a regular in the British National Archives (on-line). I know that a number of dockyard tradesmen enlisted in the RNR before WWI and I suspect he was one of them. I saw photos of him as an Artisan in Petty Officers uniform and another in uniform as an Artificer. Family story is that he was a Chief Shipwright. That is consistent with the uniforms. He may also have served in the RAN but I can find no records at AWM or National Archives in Canberra. His wife and two daughters travelled to Australia in the Shropshire in Aug 1914. I understand he planned to go with them but obviously the war intervened. He came to Australia post WWI. He died Avalon Sydney NSW in 1960. Ring any bells? Peter Ferguson NSW Australia