Thank you Olwyn. This is a very interesting personal account. His writing of the great loss of lives, including some of those while swimming in the Mediterranean, is a sad reminder of the tragedy of war. Lest we forget. Susan http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzlscant/El_Alamein.htm On Saturday, January 7, 2017, Olwyn Whitehouse <[email protected]> wrote: > No. 19697 Ted Tonkin, 23rd Battalion, H.Q. Coy, 2nd NZEF, M.E. Forces to > Ernie 28th Nov. 1942 [Edward Alexander Tonkin died in 1961 aged 47. Born > c.1914.] > >