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Off the top of my head -

Father Rob Semple was an aircraft mechanic in the RNZAF; not sure but I think he spent part of the Vietnam War on an airbase somewhere in Thailand.

Paternal grandfather John 'Jack' Semple served as a New Zealand Army infantry captain in WWII in North Africa (El Alamein and Tobruk); his war ended when a German round tore off half his moustache along with a chunk of his upper lip.

Maternal great uncle Eric Datson was an officer in the RNZAF, escaped from Singapore following the British surrender during WWII; while he and fellow escapees were attempting to sail to Australia on a small boat they stopped at a small island to gather food and water and he was killed by local indigenous people (I guess they hated the Japanese and Whitey equally).

Maternal great grandfather John Datson served in WWI at Gallipoli as a stretcher bearer with the AIF Medical Corps; amazingly made it back alive and changed his life to become a parish priest in Wellington, New Zealand (I was christened in the church he built with his own hands).

Paternal great-great uncle John Semple served in the Sixth Western Australian Mounted Infantry, a Colonial Military Forces unit in the Boer War; killed in action at Carolina, South Africa on May 15, 1901 (no idea of the circumstances).