As we count down to Anzac Day — a time to  commemorate those who died in war and honour the many returned servicemen and women — East Coast man Marcus Williams recounts meeting a Belgian historian who wrote a book on the 1917 Battle of La Basse-Ville and later discovered her grandmother had met his grandfather, Toby Nolan, during World War 1.

In 2017 our family was contacted by a lady from Belgium.