SOLDIERS IDENTIFIED AT PHEASANT WOOD BY BATTALION.
Michael James, a friend of ours who is associated with the 31st Battalion Memorial Association in Brisbane and Townsville, has provided us with a breakdown of the soldiers buried and identified at Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery.
The numbers are interesting in that the least number of identified are from the worst affected battalions. For example, 60 Battalion was effectively decimated.
Few if any reached the Sugarloaf salient, so few if any would be recovered by the Germans.
As Brig. General Pompey Elliott would be quoted to say: 'Good God Bill, what's happened to my brigade?'
| 29th Battalion | 21 | 30th Battalion | 25 | 31st Battalion | 23 | 32nd Battalion | 36 | 8th Brigade | 105 |
| 53rd Battalion | 15 | 54th Battalion | 26 | 55th Battalion | 14 | 56th Battalion | 0 | 14th Brigade | 55 |
| 57th Battalion | 0 | 58th Battalion | 0 | 59th Battalion | 1 | 60th Battalion | 2 | 15th Brigade | 3 |
| 14th MGC | 3 | ||||||||
| Overall Total: | 166 |