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    1. [YORKSGEN] Another Yorkshire lad killed with the Aussies in WWI
    2. Caroline Gaden via
    3. http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/photographs/vignacourt/?query=vignacourt In WWI photographs were taken of many soldiers by a French couple.... only recently were those glass plate negatives recoverd ... many of the soldiers are unknown, recently the 100th one was identified. Remember Me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt The Louis and Antoinette Thuillier Collection contains almost 4,000 glass-plate negatives depicting British, French, Australian, US, and Indian soldiers, Chinese Labour Corps, and French civilians. More than 800 of these glass-plate negatives featuring Australians were generously donated to the Australian War Memorial by Mr Kerry Stokes AC in August 2012. You can view all the Thuillier images in the Memorial's collection on these webpages.... and you may be able to help identifiy the men who so far remain un-named.... follow the link above to the AWM. Many of the Australian who fought in WWI were British born so may be worth you doing some follow-up... Philip Edwin Taylor, one lad from Seamer, near Scarborough served 2 years with the 5th Yorkshire regiment Territorial Force before going to Australia aged 19 and enlisting with them. He died in France, 26 March 1917, KIA when he was 25, with no known grave at Villers Bretonneux https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=296255 All the best Caroline

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