Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on Friday 15 August, Kenilworth Nub News is sharing a short series on the town's connections to the Second World War and the war in the Pacific. The town will mark VJ Day with a short service at the Abbey Fields war memorial at 11am on Friday.

This VJ Day, Donna Curtis will lay a wreath at Kenilworth's war memorial. It's an honour for any Australian living abroad, but for Donna, it carries personal significance.

Both her grandfathers served in the Second World War. Both made it home. And both carried the weight of those years in their own way.

Her maternal grandfather, George Leonard Hopkins – known in the family as "Pop" – was stationed in Darwin during the Japanese bombing raids of 1942 and 1943.

He worked in supply and logistics, keeping a vit

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