From the archives: this story was last published in January 2019.
In 1992, an Englishman stumbled upon the grave of a lone Australian WWII veteran in a Staffordshire cemetery, whose background was shrouded in mystery. Now at the age of 52, the man has been devoting his own time for the past 25 years, tending to the gravestone’s upkeep … and trying to piece together the veteran’s mysterious past.Wayne Hartshorne, a golf course green keeper by trade, was tending his grandfather’s gravesite when he came across the RAAF pilot Warrant Officer John Benjamin Burrows’s final resting place.
