Somme – Nick Miller

‘Final victory’ for Australian diggers as they are laid to rest outside Pozieres

The “final victory” of three unknown Australian soldiers came on Saturday, as they were buried with full military honours in

Thousands of Aussies still lie where they fell, shallow under the Somme dirt. This man was probably an officer –

There is some corner of a foreign potato field that is forever Aussie. This is part of what Anzac means now.

One hundred years on, it’s the little details that lift history to life.

Monsieur Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre had no idea, until recently, that his family home played a key role in Australia’s war