I posted an item about the WWI soldiers buried at Fromelles, France just over a month ago. The soldiers are back in the news. The following is an excerpt from an article in the March 24, 2009 edition of the Brisbane Times.
When the remains of about 400 Australian and British soldiers were unearthed in northern France last year, it appeared one of World War I’s great mysteries was finally solved.
Their discovery in an unmarked mass grave on the outskirts of the rural town of Fromelles, west of Lille, was greeted with much fanfare back in Australia, sparking hopes that many families might finally discover what happened to loved ones who never returned from the Great War.
However, cracking the puzzle of who these men were is proving to be as tricky as solving the 92-year conundrum of their resting place.
A team of historians and amateur researchers in Australia and Britain have been on the case, gathering as much evidence as they can to come up with a list of soldiers they believe lie at Fromelles.
Out of the 1,294 Australian soldiers officially listed as missing after the horrific Battle of Fromelles in July 1916, they have about 190 names of men who could be buried in the mass grave.
