
Despite being too young to understand the war service her great-grandfather rendered, the 2-year-old was dressed in her brightest best with a poppy pinned to one side of her cardigan and miniatures of the veteran's medals on the other.
Mr Hancox said it was Issy's third Anzac Day service at the Dunedin Cenotaph ''out of the womb'', and could even be counted as her fourth.
''We came along when my wife [Clare] was pregnant with her,'' Mr Hancox said.
He started attending Anzac Day commemorations in Dunedin about a decade ago out of respect for the grandfather he never knew, Mr Hancox said.
''I have made it a thing that I do each year,'' he said. ''We make sure we get out of bed for it.''
His grandfather, Douglas Hancox, died when his father was only young.
Douglas Hancox served with the Royal New Zealand Signals Corps and saw action in Africa and Italy.
His three brothers also served in World War 2.
''They all went and they all came home, luckily,'' Mr Hancox said.
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