Hi all Before leaving the list, I would like to thank all the wonderful people who helped me with the problem of James Dobbie, the soldier who died 20 July 1916, WW1 at Fromelles. When he signed up with the Australian army, he had no family as NOK, just a friend. But he came from Glasgow and was a marine fireman. He had put his age down a bit to join the army, which didn't help. It took a long time to find the family he came from (James Dobbie m. Catherine Carroll) and he was orphaned by age 5. His mother died after having boy twins in 1874. His father remarried and then dad died too, so James was cared for by his stepmother Sarah (Carlton) In getting the death cert, I found that his father had an earlier marriage, and those children were a generation older than young James. Seemingly they had no part of his life. (Dobbies were undertakers) The next stage of the search was to follow his older half-brothers around the world (USA and back to Scotland) and then later generation to NZ and yesterday I found a living male Dobbie relative in NZ who is happy to be involved in the next stage. As a researcher for the Fromelles project this means a dna match for James Dobbie. This will mean a change from having been in a mass grave for almost a 95 years, currently in a grave with "Australian soldier known only to God", on his head stone, to a a full military ceremony, his own named headstone and a family to remember him. The people on this list went out of the way to help, found certificates, traced down all kinds of info. Wonderful list, cant thank you enough..for more more info google the Fromelles Project and the Fromelles association Thanks again, Marg O'Leary, Port Stephens NSW.