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Lost For 90 Years, WWI Diggers Identified By DNA

Published Online: September 12, 2007 
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The Age (Australia) | 2007-09-05

They were lost for 90 years, killed in the slush of the Passchendaele battles of 1917, and forgotten. Now DNA technology has identified the remains of two Australian World War One diggers unearthed last year in the Belgian hamlet of Westhoek, east of Ypres. Sergeant George Calder, of northern Victoria, and Private John Hunter, of Queensland, will be overlooked no more.



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