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WW1 enlistment papers with missing stamped on them

A black and white profile picture of a balding man in a tie and suit.

Graves at Fromelles, France following the infamous battle of July 1916

"We're really down to the ones that are very difficult,"
Ms O'Leary said.

A grainy photograph of world war one soldiers in a trench

A rural setting in France where a mass grave was discovered

"The 32nd Battalion had only a very small number of men who reported back at the end of the day, alive and well and fit,"
Ms O'Leary said.

The sun rises behind a grave with an Australian flag in Fromelles.

A world war one enlistment form with the word 'missing' stamped in red letters across it.

Archaeologists working on the mass grave site at Fromelles in 2009.

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