Following the success of the Australia Day Blog Challenge and the Waitangi Day Challenge , a new blogging challenge has been set. This is a joint challenge for Aussies and New Zealanders. Do you have an Australian or New Zealander in your family tree who was killed in military operations? If so, we'd like to hear about not only their sacrifice, but the way their loss shaped their family history. This challenge is quite difficult for me because I'm not sure who to choose. In my close family no one went to war. Fortunately, my father and grandfathers were the wrong age, so we were spared the anguish of war. However, there are several young men in our extended family who were killed and now I have the task of choosing one. This information is taken from my book Crossing the Seas to Build a Future with further information I have discovered since writing. Research is never completed is it? Allan Seabrook Mitchell (1917 - 1943) Alan, the second of three sons of William Ch...