Second-hand book turns out to be family heirloom

For seven years, a book of poems on Rowan Oswald’s bookshelf sat forgotten and unopened, with its special connection to a special great-uncle – a navigator in World War II – unknown. Stuff reveals the link was discovered when Rowan found the name Fred Mullen handwritten inside the book, with an address in Papatoetoe, south Auckland. “Clearly, my great-uncle had cherished this book,” Rowan muses. “It’s been floating around New Zealand all this time, and sitting on my bookshelf for years.”