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The lonely grave of an unremembered Anzac: we need to live up to ‘lest we forget’ – Sydney Morning Herald
Fred Weir’s life ended not at war but when he returned to Australia – at his own hand, like so many returned service men and women. We should resolve to broaden…
No one will remember Fred Weir this Anzac Day. One of the legion of men who died years after the war ended, his name does not gleam in gold in the cloisters of the Australian War Memorial. Private Weir served with the Fourth Field Ambulance in the Middle East, Belgium and France, patching together pieces of men brought in from the battlefields. He also succumbed to enteric fever, contracted venereal disease, and was jailed for drunkenness and insubordination.
The lonely grave of World War I veteran…
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