To the grandfather I never knew but know about. WW1 made and was probably the eventual death of him. From a 32 year old dray driver in the central North Island he enlisted as a mounted riflemen, landed at Chanakle (Gallipoli) was wounded several times returning each time from hospital in Egypt before being evacuated and spending the remainder of the war with the NZ Mounted Rifles in Palestine. It was there he met Lawrence of Arabia. He was promoted in the field, eventually to 2nd lieutenant, and his medals bear the Oak Leaves (twice) as having been mentioned in despatches. After being discharged, he became a surveyor in the Central North Island, where my mother was born at Raurimu to William and Emma McKay, their second daughter, in 1923. William died in 1935, at the depths of the Great Depression and is buried in the Soldiers' section of the Karori Cemetery in Wellington. I am gra