Private Roy Martin's Named Headstone Rededicated at Fromelles on 110th Anniversary of the Battle

During commemorations marking the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles (19–20 July 1916), Private Roy Leslie Martin of Cobar, New South Wales, received a new headstone bearing his name and regimental details at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery in northern France. Martin, one of more than 1,800 Australians killed at Fromelles — the bloodiest single day in Australian military history — had been reburied as an 'Unknown Australian Soldier' in 2010 after his remains were among 250 exhumed from a German-dug mass grave at Pheasant Wood discovered in 2009. His identity was confirmed through DNA analysis and archival research in collaboration with the Fromelles Association of Australia, and formally announced by the Australian Department of Defence on April 28, 2026, alongside that of 2nd Lt. Duncan McKenzie. The rededication ceremony coincided with Fromelles Day commemorations held simultaneously in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and at Fromelles itself, and brings the number of the 250 Pheasant Wood soldiers identified by name to 182 of 250.