St John cadets Emma Hackett, left, and Elgin Ng lay a wreath at the Havelock memorial. But his wife Marge kept all the photographs he sent back, and preserved them in hand-bound albums to tell the story of his service for him, said Tania’s son Brent, poring through the photographs on Sunday morning. “You only get more interested in them, as you get older,” Brent said, pointing out former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, inspecting the troops in black and white. Crowds spilled onto the footpath at Havelock Town Hall’s service, and when Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Simon Ewing-Jarvie asked the crowd to tell the person beside them who they were remembering, the hall was loud with names.