Studio portrait of 1211 Pte Reuben Parry, 29th Battalion AIF, who was captured on the night of 19 ...

Studio portrait of 1211 Pte Reuben Parry, 29th Battalion AIF, who was captured on the night of 19 July 1916 at Fleurbaix (Fromelles). According to correspondence with the Australian Red Cross Pte Parry reported that during the battle he met up with his brother 320 Private Frederick Parry, of the same unit, close to the German line. They decided that the severely wounded Frederick should try to return to the Allied trenches and that Reuben would stay with the survivors of the battalion and try to carry on. However he was captured shortly after and Frederick was never seen again. Later that year Frederick's family learned via the Red Cross that the Germans had recovered his body and had given him a Christian burial. In 2010 his remains were recovered from an unmarked mass grave and formally identified by the Fromelles Joint Identification Board and were then reburied at the new Commonwealth War Cemetery at Pheasant Wood. Pte Reuben Parry survived the war and was released in November 1918. See also P10186.001 & P10186.002.