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| Wearing the Poppy scarf Jing bought me at the Australian War Memorial, this September |
Mutti’s father. Anne and my grandfather. Jane, Anna and John’s great-grandfather. Meredith and Alex’s great- grandfather. Rocky and Noah’s great-great-grandfather…. Fought in World War I.
The end of which we celebrate on this, the 11th hour or the 11th day of the 11th month, the hour, day and month of Armistice Day in 1918. The end of the “Great” War.
That man was Mutti’s father Bruce Anderson. A farmer from North Island New Zealand.
Going off to war in Egypt and Gallipoli was the only time he left home. He was wounded in Gallipoli and sent back to New Zealand. He said “if that’s what overseas is like, I’m staying home.”
More family history here.
