We each took a different row and began the search amidst the Kiwi soldiers. With each grave passed, I became a little more unsure of us finding him at all. I walked down one row and then skipped up to another as Mike was coming behind me. Moments later I heard, "here he is" and I walked back to the row I had skipped and there he was. 2173 was his enlisting number and he was an Engineer. Actually he was a Sapper which was a regiment of the mining engineers. He dug the tunnels into Enemy territory. He was killed in battle in Greece.
These were huge plaques with more names on them of what we could tell where Generals and higher ups.
Mike looking for his great-grandad
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