Earlier this month saw the commencement of DNA testing on the remains of hundreds of Australian and British WW1 Soldiers whose remains were discovered last year in mass graves at Fromells.
The testing program sets out to identify the individuals that have been killed in combat and will be the largest undertaking of this kind to [...]
Archive for the tag 'Defence Matters'
Filed under Heritage
More on Fromelles
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 26th 2009
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
More Pictures from Chatham
I was asked by Welshcakes what the second photograph in my Armed Forces Day post represented. I was just in the middle of this post with some basic information on the memorial, when I had an email alert telling me that I had a comment on my previous post. The comment was from Tom, whose [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 29th 2009
Filed under Books
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
Synopsis from book cover: “One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry’s highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2009
