Discovering the lost Australian soldiers from Gallipoli | 60 Minutes Australia

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In 2008, after years of searching, Lambis Englezos found the lost diggers of Fromelles: more than 200 Australian soldiers who were hastily buried in a mass grave during the First World War. Despite government and bureaucratic resistance, Lambis proved the bodies were there. Subsequently the diggers were exhumed, given proper burials, and many finally identified, to the great comfort of their families. Now Lambis has done it again. For the past four years he's honed in on what he believes is the mass grave of 143 Australian soldiers on the Gallipoli peninsula. And you won't believe it, but once again our government is turning its back.

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