Clarence Newton Wills was my father’s mother’s brother. There are two things that stand out for me in Newton’s military records. Firstly, is just how thin he must have been when he went off to war. He weighed just 57kg, had a 33 inch/84cm chest and stood 5 foot 6 in height. He was marked as ‘fit’, but that meant a lack of obvious defects more than an assessment of his physical wellbeing. The difference between his normal chest measurement and when fully expanded was only 1 inch. Second, is the vagueness around his date of death. It says something about the chaos and carnage around him at Gallipoli that records show it was “reasonable to suppose” that Newton was killed in action between the 1st and the 23rd of May 1915. 92 men from the Otago Battalion were listed as “Missing” between the 1st and 23rd of May 1915. They were part of the 69th casualty list, which was printed in the Evenin