Following the careful research and passionate advocacy of a Melbourne school teacher, Lambis Englezos, the Australian Army undertook to
organise a detailed search of the site where evidence pointed to the existence of a mass grave established by the German Army to bury
Australian and British dead from the Battle of Fromelles, 19-20 July 1916.
Between May and September 2009, Oxford Archaeology recovered 250 sets of remains from the site; each was interred in a separate grave in the newly built Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery.
A combination of forensic archaeology, archival research and DNA testing resulted in the identification of 97 Australian soldiers, who now have named headstones.
The search for relatives goes on, and it is hoped that further identifications may be possible as
family members come forward.
The Cemetery was formally dedicated on 19 July 2010. Listed below are the 97 Australians so far identified.