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Greg Lingard finds Euroa in France

COMMEMORATING BERT AND JOE: Euroa’s Bert Saxon is buried at the Tincourt New British Cemetery in Somme, France, where he died in action in WWI. On the same headstone is another engraving commemorating Bert’s brother Joe Saxon who had died two years earlier in action. The second engraving was added to the headstone at the request of their mother.

GREG Lingard was inspired by an article in The Euroa Gazette this year to make a special stop during a trip to Europe last month.

The former Euroa resident visited the grave of Euroa’s Bert Saxon at the Tincourt New British Cemetery in Somme, France, after reading Bert had died in action in France during WWI in an article by Pam Zierk-Mahoney, published by this masthead shortly before ANZAC Day.

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