Studio portrait of 1470 Private (Pte) Norman Leslie Brumm, 29th Battalion, from Auburn, Victoria. ...

Studio portrait of 1470 Private (Pte) Norman Leslie Brumm, 29th Battalion, from Auburn, Victoria. A pottery hand prior to enlisting on 9 November 1915, he embarked from Melbourne, aboard HMAT Ascanius on 10 November 1915. He was killed in action on 19 July 1916, in Fleurbaix, France, aged 19. After the war his grave could not be located and he was commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles. In 2008 a burial ground was located at nearby Pheasant Wood containing the bodies of 250 British and Australian soldiers including Pte Brumm. All of the remains were reburied in the newly created Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery. At the time of the official dedication of the new cemetery on 19 July 2010, ninety-six of the Australians, including Pte Brumm, had been identified through a combination of anthropological, archaeological, historical and DNA information. Work is continuing on identifying the other remains relocated from the burial ground and buried in the new cemetery as unknown soldiers.