In 1915 during the First World War a New Zealand soldier in his early twenties by the name of Bert Cooke from South Taranaki was on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean receiving medical care before returning to the front line to fight the Turks, and he sent a postcard from Malta to his brother in law, who was only 14 at the time, Roy Coombridge -- who lived on the family farm in Te Kiri in Taranaki. Earlier this month, 106 years later, the postcard turned up, at an ATM in a shopping centre in Townsville Australia. Karyn speaks to Roy Coombridge's daughter Doris Elphick.
Photo: Doris Elphick
