The hunt for lost diggers

Alisha Fogden
Updated September 22 2015 - 3:02pm, first published April 24 2015 - 11:43am
Television newsreader Jane Doyle stepped in to talk to veteran Sam Aitchison about his WW1 serving father Frank and Sam's own was experiences at this week's Anzac-inspired Rural Media SA lunch. Mrs Doyle said in preparing for the interview she found out that her great uncle fought in some of the same WW1 battles in France as Frank Aitchison.
Television newsreader Jane Doyle stepped in to talk to veteran Sam Aitchison about his WW1 serving father Frank and Sam's own was experiences at this week's Anzac-inspired Rural Media SA lunch. Mrs Doyle said in preparing for the interview she found out that her great uncle fought in some of the same WW1 battles in France as Frank Aitchison.

"AN act of serendipity" is how television newsreader Jane Doyle described the sequence of events that lead her to interviewing one of SA's most interesting and decorated families at a Rural Media luncheon at the Adelaide Showground on Wednesday.

Alisha Fogden

Cropping editor of Stock Journal.

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