Anzac Day: Deeds of Australian heroes echo for French students

By Nick Miller
Updated April 25 2014 - 9:08am, first published April 24 2014 - 11:45pm
Naomi Stokes, holding a picture of her great-grandfather Sergeant Charles "Charl" Stokes. Photo: Nick Miller
Naomi Stokes, holding a picture of her great-grandfather Sergeant Charles "Charl" Stokes. Photo: Nick Miller
Mathilde Corlay, 17, a student at Lycee des Nerviens in Bavay, France. Photo: Nick Miller
Mathilde Corlay, 17, a student at Lycee des Nerviens in Bavay, France. Photo: Nick Miller
Mehdi Medinoun and Alice Dareys, students from Lycee Louis Thuillier in Amiens. Photo: Nick Miller
Mehdi Medinoun and Alice Dareys, students from Lycee Louis Thuillier in Amiens. Photo: Nick Miller

Amiens, France: They have grown up in a region crowded with war cemeteries where the names of Australia’s dead are written on stone for posterity. But when you live here, the monuments are so familiar that they can be almost invisible.

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