Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon, recently announced that nine Australians among the 250 Australian and British WW1 soldiers who were recovered from Pheasant Wood in France in 2009 by a Joint Identification Board held on 23 March 2012.
Mr Snowdon commented that current identification brings the total number of Australians identified to 119. He continued that the work by the Joint Identification Board has ensured that Privates Leonard Broadhurst, Robert Carrington Forland, John Robertson Forrest, John Joseph Goulding, William Alexander Jamieson, Arthur Joseph Johnson, Claude Ward John Cyril Wynn and Corporal Alfred George Tuck now known by name where they lie in Fromelles.