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Chris McKeen/Stuff Dave Yaxley reads the wartime diary of his great-uncle Jack ‘Johnny’ Crawford. “Whether that’s still there – I don’t know. But I’m going to go and have a look some time,” Yaxley, from Beachlands, Auckland, says. “It reads as if they are off on this exciting adventure, never expecting not to return. I think probably once they got there, reality struck.” But its Crawford’s final entry Yaxley decides to read: “It was bright moonlight with no clouds, a...