Sepia Saturday : My Grandmother

My Grandmother

Ann Newlands

is on the right 

with her sister Hilda

Please go here for my story

Visit Sepia Saurday

*

Sepia Saturday - Worn Out

Sepia Saturday

Worn Out

My poor Dad's body

is old and worn out

He has previously suffered strokes

and last night had a heart attack

Here he is 

a boy of sixteen or so

ready to leap into life

and here

with his sister

having fun,

with their lives ahead of them...

This morning

I am told

he was sitting up and

talking when he felt like it...

Did I mention he is stubborn

and won't give in easily...

Visit Sepia Saturday

*

Sepia Saturday

Sepia Saturday

David Newlands

my father's older brother

and an uncle I never knew

was born in the Canterbury town
of Timaru, New Zealand

After he completed school 

he joined the Royal New Zealand Airforce

David was captured

by the Japanese in the Pacific War

and interned in a POW camp

It is believed that when prisoners

were being transported

by the Japanese across the Pacific

he was killed in an allied attack

But there are no records

to confirm this

I found this photograph 

and the commemorative certificate

on my Father's bedroom wall

when I visited Christchurch, New Zealand
last week

Visit Sepia Saturday
around the world

*