Angela Fitchett researched the stories of the young men who were lost as part of the French Pass memorial wall project. Photo: SUPPLIED/Angela Fitchett
When World War I broke out, French Pass was a small community consisting of just a handful of houses, a school, a lighthouse and some surrounding farms.
But like many others around the country, it paid for peace with the lives of its young men.
Angela Fitchett grew up on a farm in Waikawa Bay in the district of French Pass in the Marlborough Sounds.
She is one of many New Zealanders marking ANZAC Day overseas - a chance to connect with those who fell far from home and to remember her father, who struggled to leave the horrors of war behind.
Angela speaks to Susana on the eve of her trip to Belgium and France.
Angela Fitchett researched and wrote this book to try and get a better understanding of her father's wartime experience and how it affected him. Photo: SUPPLIED/Writes Hill Press
