V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial

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Location Rue Delval, Fromelles, Nord - Hauts-de-France, France
Type memorial
Description

V.C. Corner Cemetery was made after the Armistice. It contains the graves of 410 Australian soldiers who died in the Attack at Fromelles and whose bodies were found on the battlefield, but not a single body could be identified. It was therefore decided not to mark the individual graves, but to record on a memorial the names of all the Australian soldiers who were killed in the engagement and whose graves were not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker, was built to commemorate nearly 1,300 Australian casualties, however since then many have subsequently had graves identified for them (in particular as a result of the excavation of the Pheasant Wood mass grave site in 2009), so today, it is the point of commemoration for 1,100 Australian casualties.

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Condition

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Names

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HEGGIE, Allan Dow

Service number 3531A
Lance Corporal
60th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

MITCHELL, Albert Edward

Service number 4845
Private
59th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 27 Dec 1893

CAMERON, Duncan Peter

Service number 233
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 28 Mar 1881

TYMONS, James Patrick

Service number 408
Sergeant
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Feb 1894

ABBOTT, David Roylestone Leslie

Service number 4898
Private
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 19 Jul 1895

PALMER, Philip

Service number 2892
Private
53rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Aug 1896

MEYER, Ernest Sydney Rudolph

Service number 3264
Private
55th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

WIGGINS, Robert Thomas

Service number 3984
Private
59th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1884

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