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 [...]
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8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 26th 2009
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Remembering Fromelles
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) have set up a new website that explains a current project, which sets out to move the remains of more than 600 casualties from Pheasant Wood to new military cemetery at Fromelles for their reburial.
In May 2008, after several years of painstaking research and investigation, five burial pits dating [...]
9 Comments CherryPie on Jun 5th 2009
