Mystery couple identified

no y n Reginald Edward Hannaker was killed in November 1917.

An emotional Mrs Murray said it was a shock to see the image surface in News Corp Australia publications on the weekend as part of centenary commemorations.

“It’s always been a family thing, I have a photo of it,” she said yesterday she said of the image of the Hannakers formerly from Middle Park in Melbourne.

“They went over there to visit the grave. He was their only child and he was shot and wounded in the stomach and died two days later and was buri buried in Belgium.

““They went over there to find his grave … she would live on i in Melbourne until she was 92 in about 1966 and Frank die died sometime after the Secon ond World War.

“Aunt Adi never said too mu much about it to us as kids … my aunty had a copy of it han hanging in the passageway in her home and we all got a copy at th the time.

““It was a very moving ima image, I was terribly emotional all y yesterday after I saw it and thin thinking about it.

““It was a shock and put a lum lump in my throat. I was over there three years ago (Belgium) visiting Reg’s grave and I got some sand from Eastern Beach in Geelong and put it on his grave with a poppy.

“It’s great they (his parents) can be recognised now after all these years, they’re not the noname people.

“They would have been very upset then because he was their only child.”

The CWGC said it would be pleased to now link the names with the image for their files and display.

“It’s a wonderful, powerful image,” a spokesman said.