Haunting images of World War I soldiers never seen by some diggers' families will be presented to the National Archives today.
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The portraits were taken by a London photography house in the weeks before the soldiers headed off to the Western Front.
Sadly, some never made it back to collect the images or send them home to their families.
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship winner Courtney Page-Allen has sourced the 500 Australian soldiers' portraits from a British collection of 16,000.
Among them are the four soldiers pictured above. Broken Hill student Lieutenant George Eric Klug enlisted at the age of 18 in April 1916. He died on the Western Front of gas shell wounds in May 1918 and is buried in Vignacourt British Cemetery near Amiens, France.
Lieutenant Irvine Barton worked on a farm near Ipswich, Queensland and received a Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in March 1918 on the Western Front. The following month he was shot and died from his wounds. He was 23. He is buried in the Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
North Sydney wool auctioneer Captain Frank Amphlett was killed in action in October 1917 on the Western Front. His body was never found. He was 40.
Engineer Lieutenant William Robert Allen from Kingston Victoria, survived wounds at Gallipoli in 1915 but was killed in action two years later on the Western Front aged 24. He was his widowed mother's only child. He is buried in Montauban, France.
All 500 portraits have been digitised by the Department of Veteran Affairs and will be matched to information about their personal histories on the Mapping our Anzacs website.