Thomas Christopher Gollins, Grace Caroline Gollins and Graham Thomas Gollins

Thomas, Grace and Christopher Gollins

Family portrait of Private Thomas Christopher Gollins of the Machine Gun Corps with his wife Grace and their infant son Graham.

Thomas Christopher Gollins married Grace Caroline Rebecca  Twist at St Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, on 13 July 1915.  Their son Graham was born on 13 February 1918.

Thomas, Grace and Graham visited Berry & Co.'s studio shortly before Thomas embarked for the war on 23 April.   Thomas was away for nearly two years, returning to New Zealand on 6 March 1920.

He returned to his work in the motor industry as a mechanic and later as a garage proprietor in Levin and Hawera, where he died in 1944.  Grace died in Rotorua in 1982.

Graham served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Second World War, and died in 1988.