Identifying the Fromelles Fallen.
As work goes on to the identify more than 300 First World War bodies found in a mass grave in Fromelles in northern France earlier this year, on PM tonight we hear from a man who hopes his grand uncle's remains have been discovered.
Leonard Twamley - seen here sitting -
was killed at Fromelles just weeks after arriving on the front lines. The battle - a diversionary attack from the bigger battle of the Somme - was a disaster for the Allies, with thousands of Australian, and British troops killed. Leonard - a private in Royal Warwickshires - was listed as missing, and his mother put this poignant notice in the Coventry Herald seeking any information on his whereabouts
Unfortunately she died without knowing what happened to her son, but Leonard's grand nephew, Richard Parker, has now taken up the quest to find his grand uncle's final resting place and after contacting PM, he is one step nearer to knowing whether Leonard's remains have indeed been uncovered in the mass graves.
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