Australian soldiers' remains discovered on WW1 battlefield

Australian soldiers' remains discovered on WW1 battlefield

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Researcher's remarkable mission to honour forgotten diggers

107 years after the end of the Great War, a lone mission for these forgotten diggers is now complete. 106 diggers and one nurse found their way to Orange in country NSW.

During the Great War, a couple of farmers of the Somme piqué de photographie immortalize British, Indian, but mostly Australian soldiers. Since its discovery, this invaluable fund attracts every year, in April, many oceanic tourists who came to commemorate their fallen fighters on the front.

Bodies of Aussie soldiers found 107 years after World War I battle

The discovery was made during a fieldwork activity in northern France ahead of Anzac Day.

Four more missing Aussies from the Great War unearthed in France

This 1917 photo shows a railway embankment that ran parallel to the Hindenburg Line south-east of Bullecourt. Photo: courtesy of Australian War Memorial/DoD The Defence Department says the remains of four Australian soldiers killed during WWI have been found in northern France almost 108 years later. The department says the soldiers were unearthed by members of the Unrecovered War Casualties Army unit while working in the field. The uni…

We will remember them

France, 1916: More than 295,000 Australian soldiers fought alongside the Allies and were engaged in a bloody war along the Western Front. Some 46,000 Australian men were killed in action. Another 100,... Subscribe to the Castlemaine Mail to read the full story. Already a subscriber? Log in below Problems logging in?