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Lest we forget Australia's missing

London-based Europe correspondent Paola Totaro reported on Pheasant Wood on 31 May, 2008. Circulated widely, 'Grave at Fromelles unearths political minefield' tells of a previously undisclosed postwar agreement, which precluded specific searches for the remains of missing Great War soldiers. Something which explains why successive Commonwealth governments have been so unwilling to consider recovery.
Published in The Age and reproduced with Author's permission. - See full article.

In May 2008 The Senior published a reflection on the discovery of HMAS Sydney by Lee Opitz and an article on the mystery surrounding Australia's worst maritime disaster, the sinking of the Montevideo Maru. Published on Page 14, the article 'Montevideo Maru fate remains another mystery' is available on site by using the function key provided.
Story credit: by Lee Opitz, courtesy The Senior - Victoria. - See full article.

The Higher Education Supplement of The Australian on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 carried a story by Leigh Dayton, rebuking the Australian Government over its handling of Fromelles. Dayton refers to the lack of resolution and openness with respect to the trial dig and insinuates the wrong technology was used during the recent excavation.
Approval for this posting was obtained from Leigh Dayton, Science Writer, The Australian, June 2, 2008. - See full article or article without side image.

Published in the December 1998 Edition of MUFTI, the article titled 'Australian Private finally laid to rest' better than most portrays the tragic loss of life during the Great War and the hypocrisy of current policy with respect to recovering human remains. The story of Private Bosisto should now in retrospect, be starkly contrasted with the knowledge that affiliate nations do not fund the CWGC to search for remains and where ever possible actually try to deter such activities by private individuals, corporations and groups.
Courtesy of Jude Beshears, Victorian Branch RSL - MUFTI Magazine, December, 1998. - See full article.

POST CARD: The Horse Guards, London - Printed in Germany, this historic image is believed to have been taken by Francis Frith & Company, which became the UK market leader in this kind of publishing after postcards were legalized in 1910. [Horse Guards was an area in Whitehall, central London, previously the home of the Household Cavalry which was first formed in 1661. Now a living museum it consists of two senior regiments of the British Army and fulfilled an important role during WWI].

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Lest we forget Australia's missing

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