Tim Lycett is a former Victorian police officer and crime-scene specialist with 25 years experience. For his service to the community he has been awarded the Victoria Police Service Medal and the National Medal. He has been performing genealogical research for the past fifteen years but his particular area of expertise is researching Australia's First World War soldiers; a passion he has undertaken for more than twenty years. During this time he has assisted a great many people to locate, identify and understand their ancestor's military service. Tim is well established within the international military research community and has written several biographies of Australian soldiers that have appeared in national newspapers and military history magazines. His lifelong interest in the First World War and his own historical research led him to establish the Fromelles Descendant Database, which voluntarily works with soldiers' descendants to help identify the lost World War I Australian diggers recently discovered buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood, France. Tim now lives on the Gold Coast with his wife.