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Battle of Fromelles

Second Lieutenant Duncan McKenzie has been identified a century after World War I.
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Unknown no more: two WWI soldiers identified

29/04/202603/05/2026 Posted by Mike Hughes 723 Views 0 Comments Battle of Fromelles, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Passchendaele, Third Battle of Ypres, WWI

More than a century after they were killed in action in World War I, the remains of two missing Australian

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Captain Kenneth Mortimer (left) and Private Henry Bell, both 29th Battalion, AIF.
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Nine recently identified Fromelles KIAs get new headstones

20/07/201820/07/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4221 Views 0 Comments Battle of Fromelles

Nine Australian World War I soldiers identified by the 2018 Fromelles Project Identification Board [announcement made in April] have had their new,

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Captain Kenneth Mortimer (left) and Private Henry Bell, both 29th Battalion, AIF.
Australian News Veterans 

Nine more Australian soldiers from Battle of Fromelles identified

09/04/201809/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5650 Views 0 Comments Battle of Fromelles

Minister for Defence Personnel Darren Chester today announced nine World War I Australian soldiers who fought in the Battle of

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Australian Defence Force personnel from Australia's Federation Guard and Australian Army's 2nd Division rehearse at VC Corner, Fromelles, France, ahead of the commemorations of the centenaries of the First World War battles of Fromelles and Pozières. Photo by Sergeant Janine Fabre
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ADF prepares to reflect on the Battle of Fromelles

19/07/201619/07/2016 Posted by Brian Hartigan 6764 Views 0 Comments Battle of Fromelles, Pheasant Wood

Australians will remember our soldiers who fought and died in the Battle of Fromelles one hundred years ago today, during the First

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