Using archival sources to identify battlefield sites and the fates of the missing: The First Battle of Bullecourt 1917 as a case history

Abstract

The First Battle of Bullecourt took place in April 1917 and two study cases of the Australian missing from that event have been investigated. Firstly, the fate of Captain Allan Edwin Leane, and secondly the fate of an unaccounted group of wounded last seen in a German dugout. Australian and German unit diaries were used in conjunction with mapping and aerial photography to determine what happened and where.