On tracing my great uncle Joseph McLaughlin, b.7th Nov 1890, Kilwinning, Scotland, I came across a handwritten US Army draft note 1917, a Joseph from Killlinning, 1891, (arithmetic was wrong), Army Serial number 1210224. Further, I found in Flemish that he was killed 16th august 1918, buried in the only US WW1 cemetery in Europe with 367 comrades, Waregem, Belgium. Leaping forward the US Army gave me copies of family correspondence US and Scotland, copy of dog tags, then welcomed me as the first family member to stand at his grave for near 100 years – a thought provoking experience. With permission I posted a Scottish flag at his cross. He’d been posthumously awarded the Purple Heart. Joseph’s story in the book “The Soldiers of the Flanders Field American Military Cemetery” Christopher Sims and Patrick Lernout 2017.