His body was nameless for 100 years after being found in a mass grave in France but Victorian World War I soldier Justin Hercules Breguet will now finally rest with honour.
The 18-year-old private is one of six Australians who have been identified in 2016 after being recovered from a mass grave in Pheasant Wood, France, in 2009, the Australian Army said on Friday.
Private Breguet was born in Geelong in 1897.
He was single and employed as a bread delivery man when he enlisted in the Australian Army on 16 July 1915, leaving Melbourne seven months later bound for Egypt.
Five months later he was dead, and was buried in a mass grave with 250 Australian and British soldiers killed in the Battle of Fromelles in France on 19 July 1916.
Breguet would lie in the French soil until 2009, when he was carefully exhumed and buried in an unmarked grave as an investigation team worked to identify him.
He was identified in May 2016.
Private Breguet, along with Second Lieutenant James Benson, Private Clifton Sydney Brindal, Private Sidney Broom, Private William Burke, and Private Robert Thomas Maudsley, have now had their names added to their graves.
There are still 100 soldiers bodies yet to be identified from the Pheasant Wood mass grave.
"The Battle of Fromelles is an important part of our army's history and our nation's history, and it is a story that we want to complete," Major General Burr said.
Private Breguet lies in the Fromelles Military Cemetery in Pheasant Wood, France.
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