Private James Young who enlisted claiming he was 18. He was in fact just 16, killed near the French-Belgian border not far from Armentieres.
Directly across from the Old Windmill memorial outside Pozieres is the tank memorial commemorating the first use of tanks in battle. British Mark I tanks were used at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) on 15 September 1916, with mixed results; many broke down, but nearly a third succeeded in breaking through.
The land around Pozieres contains the remains of more than 4,000 Australians who have no known graves. It will be forever part of Australia leading famed war correspondent C E W Bean made the observation those French fields were "more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other spot on earth".
They may have been able to offer some protection but all too often the wearers suffered terrible wounds and death.
One of many Australians who died away from the Battlefields, this grave at Weymouth in the UK.
Part of the exhibition by the Kings Troop Royal artillery in July 2016 at Thiepval memorial, France.
A relative captures a loved ones name, here at the Australian National War Memorial at Villers -Bretonneaux in France after the Anzac dawn service in 2015.
Another AIF member who died in England.
The scene at the Anzac Dawn service in 2015 at the Australian National War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneaux in France.
The Anzac memorial in Weymouth, Dorset, UK, where many Australians would come to be treated for war wounds. Behind the memorial the Prince Regent Hotel, in World War I a hospital for Anzacs called the Burdon Military hospital.
Two young men from a school in Australia at the dawn service held at Villers-Bretonneaux France at the Australian National War Memorial in 2015.
If anyone deserved the term hero, it may well have been this man.Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC & Bar, MC (9 November 1884 – 4 August 1917) was a British medical doctor, Olympic athlete, and British Army officer from the Chavasse family. He is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice. The only person in World War I.
The final resting place for many who were killed in the Battle of the Somme. The cemetery is within view of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing on the Somme.
There are now over 250, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 100 are unidentified. All fell (with one exception) in July and November 1916, and belonged to the 4th, 29th and 2nd Divisions during the Battle of the Somme.
An engraver carries out his work on some of the some of the many graves at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. The location for a number of casualty clearing stations during the First World War. The village was situated on the main communication line between the Allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields in Belgium. With the second largest Commonwealth military cemetery in that country.
World War I re-enactors men wishing to pay their respects to the fallen seen here at Pozieres Old Windmill memorial site in 2016.
A World War I re-enactor and military buff from Holland, proudly displays a flag which he says flew over Pozieres after the AIF captured the village in 1916.
Another, one of many, young men who joined up underage. This young man killed at Pozieres.
The headstone of Major Jimmy McCudden at Wavans cemetery in France. McCudden, of the Royal Air Force, was one of the highest scoring aces of World War I with 57 victories.
The centre of the village of Thiepval on the Somme, in France. 2015
A wonderful late evening photo taken July 1st 2016, 100 years earlier this area, at Thiepval was bathed in blood and saw the British army suffer almost 60,000 casualties in one day, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme.
The cemetery on the outskirts of Pozieres, France. 2016
A young family at Villers-Bretonneaux, where symbols and artefacts remembering Australia involvement in liberating the village are to be seen everywhere.
At a crossroads in a village on the Somme.
A view from the National War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneaux, France. 2015
The beautiful Spring colours of a military cemetery at Codford in Wiltshire UK, where Australians and New Zealanders are buried.
The military cemetery at Codford in Wiltshire UK, where Australians and New Zealanders are buried.
Some of the walls at the memorial to the Missing at Thiepval where the names of more than 70,000 men who died and have no known grave are written.
Some of the walls at the memorial to the Missing at Thiepval where the names of more than 70,000 men who died and have no known grave are written.
A Black Bird perches of one of the headstones in the cemetery at Tyne Cot, Belgium. 2015
The Memorial to the 1/8th (Argyll) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, sunken lane near Beaumont Hamel, France.
A farmer from the West Australian country town of Goomalling has his final resting place in Codford military cemetery in Wiltshire, UK. jAMES thomas Williams died without going in to battle, shortly after arriving in Britain in 1917 after contracting flu.
The Memorial to the 1/8th (Argyll) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, sunken lane near Beaumont Hamel, France.
The Memorial to the 1/8th (Argyll) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, sunken lane near Beaumont Hamel, France.
The cloth hall in Ypres, Belgium, destroyed during fighting in World War I, rebuilt. Finally being opened in 1967, after painstakingly being recreated to look like the original building from medieval times that was destroyed.
The vast majority of the burials in this cemetery are those of officers and men who died in the summer and autumn of 1916. There are now 1,268 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery.
The vast majority of the burials in this cemetery are those of officers and men who died in the summer and autumn of 1916. There are now 1,268 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery.
The vast majority of the burials in this cemetery are those of officers and men who died in the summer and autumn of 1916. There are now 1,268 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery.
The beauty of the colour of the roses as the sun goes down over the biggest commonwealth war graves cemetery in the world, Tyne Cot in Belgium. 2015
In one grave the remains of two men are buried, one on the opening day of the battle and the other almost at the end of the same campaign in November. More than one million casualties were suffered between the two sides in less than 5 months in a bloody battle of attrition.
Looking back toward Thiepval on the Somme. 2015
The Memorial to the 1/8th (Argyll) Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, sunken lane near Beaumont Hamel, France.
People gather to photography flowers at the memorial Anzac Day 2015, Villers-Bretonneaux.
The V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I cemetery and memorial. The site is located in the commune of Fromelles, in the Nord departement of France, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the village of Fromelles on the D22C road (rue Delval).
The V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I cemetery and memorial. The site is located in the commune of Fromelles, in the Nord departement of France, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the village of Fromelles on the D22C road (rue Delval).
The V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I cemetery and memorial. The site is located in the commune of Fromelles, in the Nord departement of France, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the village of Fromelles on the D22C road (rue Delval).
The V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I cemetery and memorial. The site is located in the commune of Fromelles, in the Nord departement of France, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) northwest of the village of Fromelles on the D22C road (rue Delval).
Fourth Australian Division Memorial—Bellenglise, France
Fourth Australian Division Memorial—Bellenglise, France
Fourth Australian Division Memorial—Bellenglise, France
Fourth Australian Division Memorial—Bellenglise, France
Fourth Australian Division Memorial—Bellenglise, France
Memorial tablet at Ulster tower in honour of men of the 36th division.
The Ulster Tower is Northern Ireland's national war memorial. It was one of the first Memorials to be erected on the Western Front and commemorates the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division and all those from Ulster who served in the First World War. The memorial was officially opened on 19 November 1921 and is a very close copy of Helen's Tower which stands in the grounds of the Clandeboye Estate, near Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Many of the men of the Ulster Division trained in the esta
The Ulster Tower is Northern Ireland's national war memorial. It was one of the first Memorials to be erected on the Western Front and commemorates the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division and all those from Ulster who served in the First World War. The memorial was officially opened on 19 November 1921 and is a very close copy of Helen's Tower which stands in the grounds of the Clandeboye Estate, near Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Many of the men of the Ulster Division trained in the esta
The Ulster Tower is Northern Ireland's national war memorial. It was one of the first Memorials to be erected on the Western Front and commemorates the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division and all those from Ulster who served in the First World War. The memorial was officially opened on 19 November 1921 and is a very close copy of Helen's Tower which stands in the grounds of the Clandeboye Estate, near Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Many of the men of the Ulster Division trained in the esta
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
There are now nearly 2,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site