A burial ceremony will be held at the CWGC’s Queant Road Cemetery, France at 2pm on Monday 12 November 2018 for Lance Corporal Rolls and Private MacBeth of the 24^th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. 

Lance Corporal James Leonard Rolls and Private Hedley Roy MacBeth died together on 3 May 1917, killed by artillery fire while sheltering in a dugout on the side of a railway embankment during the Second Battle of Bullecourt. 

Their bodies were recovered by CWGC staff in 2015 and identified by the Australian Army’s Unrecovered War Casualties team in June 2018. They will be buried with full military honours on 12 November. The CWGC will mark their graves with headstones bearing their names and personal inscriptions chosen by their families. 

The service has been organised by the Australian Army and will be attended by family members, senior Australian Representatives, CWGC staff and local dignitaries. Members of the public are welcome to attend and are asked to arrive by 1.45pm.