The tragedy of the missing at Fromelles resonates once more 90
years after the battle. In June 2008 a further search for bodies
began. It was initiated by a Melbourne school-teacher, Lambis
Englezos. He was one in a group who became increasingly
convinced that there were Australian and British bodies that had
been buried by the Germans in mass graves who had not been
recovered and re-interred after the war. Such claims needed to
be backed up by careful research and this took some years to
complete. It was hard to imagine how a large number of
casualties could have been missed during post-war searches.
However, Englezos eventually compiled such a weight of evidence
that an official investigation was launched. It was known that
the Germans had conducted mass burials of allied troops after
the battle of Fromelles. They had been thorough, recording the
names of those they buried and usually gathering their identity
disc. Through international resources, including the Red Cross,
many families eventually received a