Hi again Although he does not come up in a search on Ancestry in the Medical registers he is there at least in 1891 Medical Register 1891 EDIE Robert address = 136, Millerfield place, Edinburgh Date and Place of Registration = 1889, July 12 S(cotland) Qualifications = M.B. Mast. Surg. 1888, Univ. Edin. In the same year there was also a Charles EDIE address Natal Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hi all: > > Well, I took my own advice and googled for an answer. I found " m.b.c.m" > indicates a British medical degree. > So my Robert was a doctor, not a soldier as I had thought. Still do not know > why he died so young. > Elizabeth Goodfellow Engle