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Mateship, bravery and tragedy unearthed in the outback

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A small marble headstone sits in the rusty red outback dirt, a monument to two men described as "firm friends during life, now resting here".

Childhood mates who enlisted in World War I together, Richard Slingsby and James Renshall are spending eternity side-by-side in Ivanhoe cemetery, in far western NSW.

The diggers' lives are memorialised in just 40 words cast in stone, their humble grave bel...


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