At 04:22 PM 16/09/2008, you wrote: >If he was in the middle of an apprenticeship in 1901 census, that may >have taken another few years to complete. Then a term in the army might be >three years or so. Hi Peter, I was wondering about that too. He was an apprentice moulder at 16 .Assuming he could have started it at 14 then joined the army c. 1903 when he was 18 or maybe he skipped out of his apprenticeship you wrote Do you know when he arrived in Australia and what he gave as his occupation? That may enable you to narrow down the available years for army service and establish the likelihood of him serving in numerous places. Well I went to findmy past and the only one that came anywhere near him was a Mr Reid arriving in Oct 1910 and calling himself an engineer. The age was right and the fact he was a Scot. He went to Sydney. I know by 1912 he was in Kalgoorlie singing at the Boulder Town Hall (I have the bill poster of that occasion) He married his wife Ellen there in 1914 He worked for the railway in Kalgoorlie and when he joined the army in 1917 he had himself down as a Soldier, fettler and miner So unfortunately that's all I know cheers Marilyn