How the Anzac grandfather I never met helped me this past week

(L to R, Alfred, Clennett, Jim Clennett, Guy Clennett, circa early 1916)

I’ve been in hospital over the past seven days.

Last Wednesday I had surgery to remove a lesion in my large bowel. The lesion was discovered, via a colonoscopy, after I had collapsed in agony at home on the morning of Valentine’s Day. Post-operation the surgeon informed me that he al…