Bullecourt Digger

25/04/2026

On this day, the 10th Battalion AIF formed the landing party on what became ANZAC Cove. The Legend began. The birth of the dawn tradition and establishment of the Australian national identity. Remember their sacrifice.

790 William Andrew STRANG 10 Bn. KIA 25-29 April 1915.

11/04/2026

Remembering the anniversary of the First Battle of Bullecourt.
The Digger awaits the recovery of those still Missing. Bullecourt Digger advocate for the Australian Army to perform a survey of Waine's Dugout in the former German Line OG1.

27/01/2026

A recent article published on the Australian machine gun tactics at Bullecourt.

11/11/2025

Remembering the Missing at Bullecourt.

24/04/2025

The discovery of four Diggers at Bullecourt announced.

11/04/2025

10/04/2025

On this 11 April, we remember the Fallen from the First Battle of Bullecourt.
Furthermore we await the recovery of those still Missing. Bullecourt Digger advocate for the Australian Army to perform a survey of Waine's Dugout in the former German Line OG1.

05/03/2025

Waine's Dugout - Entombed Australian Diggers of Bullecourt

Read the article: https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/1873/1981

Australia has over 18,000 missing personnel from the First World War’s fighting on the Western Front. Of these, over 2,200 are from the two battles at Bullecourt in 1917. This is 1,000 more than the figure for Fromelles, the historic battlefield site that the Australian Defence Force’s ‘Unrecovered War Casualties-Army’ (UWC-A) has focussed identifications on since 2008.

The First Battle of Bullecourt took place in April 1917 and this case study of the Australian missing from that event has investigated 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. The article demonstrates the location of an entombed German dugout.

The proposed site needs an investigative survey supported by the UWC-A to search for the former German dugouts, and establish whether wounded Australian soldiers were entombed there to confirm if their bodies are still present.

Australian Army
Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs
Richard Marles MP
Matt Keogh
Australian War Memorial
RSL South Australia
RSL Victoria
ABC News
ABC Adelaide
ABC Canberra
The Advertiser
The Canberra Times
Defence Australia
Operation Nightingale
The Principles of War

27/02/2025

Presentation of the tanks at Bullecourt.

The first Battle of Bullecourt was a failed attempt to pe*****te the German defences of the Hindenburg Line by elements of the Fifth Army under General Gough...