Born and raised in Macksville, Trevor Lynch left home to join the Army in 1980. Trevor has enjoyed a rewarding career in the Royal Australian Infantry Corps and is still serving in the army as a Warrant Officer Class Two in Headquarters Australian Defence Force, Canberra.
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Although he has achieved much during his career, it is what Trevor has accomplished in his spare time that is perhaps the most remarkable.
During an operational deployment to the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) on the Sinai Peninsular, Egypt in 1999-2000 Trevor, a military history devotee, had opportunities to visit Gallipoli and several other significant WWI and WWII locations.
After touring these battlefields the names on the memorial cenotaphs at home took on increased significance and he became determined to learn more about his Nambucca Valley forebears who set off to fight in the ‘Great War’.
Trevor’s determination became a labour of love and after 12 years of tireless research, he produced the book ‘Nambucca ANZACs’ that is as much a seminal historical reference as it is a tribute to the servicemen and women from the Nambucca who went off to WWI.
Nambucca ANZACs not only provides detail on the involvement of individuals in the Great War but is unique in that it follows the life of those who returned and their lives after the war.
Trevor’s parents were able to put him in touch with many of the descendants of those he was researching and he says that people were very generous with the loan of photographs and documents. Trevor also spent countless hours at the Macksville library reviewing micro film, expanding on information and crosschecking details.
There is not another district in Australia that can boast an historical reference document as comprehensive as Nambucca ANZACs.
Trevor Lynch has provided the means for all of us to recount the lives of these ANZACs based on fact and comprehensive research, not just faded memories and recalled stories.
During this year the Centenary of the Armistice, the information contained in Nambucca ANZACs takes on special significance.
If you have not yet seen this book for yourself I strongly recommend a visit to the Macksville or Nambucca Heads Library.
If you had a relative from the district go off to WWI or you have an interest in local history, you should not be without your own copy of Nambucca ANZACs. They are available for purchase from the Frank Partridge VC Museum, Bowraville or the Macksville Ex-Services Club.
