When the haunting final notes of ‘The Last Post’ drew the Anzac service to a close, my children were full of questions.
‘Tell us about Auntie Minnie again?’ my daughter Audrey, then eight, asked.
‘Great Aunt Minnie was your greatgrandad’s sister and a nurse who was shot in the Second World War,’ I explained to her and her brother, Finley, then 10.
My grandfather Jim’s sister, Minnie Ivy Hodgson, was tragically killed by the Japanese in a massacre on Radji Beach on Bangka Island, just
