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Hello! I'm new to Roots Chat, and to family tree research in general. That is, until I visited my 87 year old cousin in New Zealand and learned about my grandfather - Seering Frederick Matthews, who married Jennie Court. She is a mine of anecdotal stories about 'Fred', but I am trying to piece together what happened after he any Jennie moved with his family from Auckland to Sydney. Apparently he 'joined up', but to what regiment I don't know - or what happened to him in the intervening years before he came back to Australia.
If anyone can fill in these gaps I would be grateful, and can share what I have found out about him.