It's a story that is at once personal and universal.
Former senior ACT public servant Greg Fraser has done some remarkable digging and produced a book that traces his family's involvement in 200 years of war-time service - from the Napoleonic wars to the Vietnam War.
For King and Country started as a family history project, tracing 10 relatives, through birth or marriage, who served or sought to serve their countries in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War, from 1793 to 1975.