Shadows Beneath the Somme: The Australian Soldiers Behind the Graffiti of Naours

They left their names beneath a French village. More than a century later, those names are revealing the men who went to war.

Beneath the French village of Naours, thousands of First World War soldiers left their names on the chalk walls of an ancient underground city. Among them were hundreds of Australians, resting behind the lines before returning to the war.

More than a century later, archaeologist Gilles Prilaux and fellow researchers have used those inscriptions to trace the men who mad...