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‘Worst 24 hours in Australia’s history’: local Digger James identified after 108 years

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The Battle of Fromelles was one of those bloody Western Front quagmires that were such a tragic feature of World War I, with the remains of a local soldier now identified more than a century after the conflict.

Local historian Patrick Bourke recently contacted Dubbo Photo News with an Australian War Memorial announcement, revealing that the remains of one local lad, the late Private Herbert James...


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