Unknown Digger No. 5
‘Goose bumps watching the show…
This is so wonderful, I can hardly believe it’s true. Many of the faces showed signs of great fatigue and yet they managed to smile and pose for a photo forever preserving the moment in time.
A few tears shed knowing some of those fellows never made it home. What a wonderful discovery for many families around the world.’
‘These photos brought tears to my eyes. I had eight great uncles who all fought on the Western Front. Five of them were brothers. One of them was killed in
action five weeks before Armistice Day after surviving three years of that bloody hell. He is our only Digger out of eight that we have no photographic record of.
Maybe he is one of those men.’
‘Thank you so much for making these great photographs available. My mother lost her uncle in France in 1915. We have no info’ on him, not even a photo. We
have always tried to find his records but without a regiment number, we are up against a brick wall. I sit here with tears in my eyes, wondering if he is one of
these brave men. You have done a wonderful thing.
Our grand uncle … died of wounds … How amazing to think his image could be among these photos.
I carefully examined each and every photo looking for any resemblance to the many family members who fought in WW1, some of whom ever returned.’
