WhatWas Geelong - Digger Justin Breguet

Tears flow as Geelong digger Justin Breguet is identified a century on at Fromelles

Published May 20, 2016 2:22pm
DANNY LANNEN Geelong Advertiser

GEELONG soldier Justin Breguet went over the top during Australia’s bloodiest 24 hours at war and never came back.

Now one century on he will finally lie in France’s fields dignified by his name.

For aching decades, he has numbered among those lost to time at Fromelles with the title ‘no known grave’ but a DNA sample believed to have been provided by his second cousin Don Breguet, 82, of Lara has formally unlocked his identity.

The announcement to family members by an Australian Army unrecovered war casualties unit was met by tears.

“All of the family is obviously thrilled. I started crying on the phone, it was such an unexpected call,” Justin Breguet’s registered relative Sharyn Powell, of Highton, said. “Finally this young man will be laid to rest.”

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