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Stephanie Gardiner

UNCOVERED: Mateship bravery and tragedy unearthed in the outback - Caught on Camera

Outback cemeteries are helping reveal the triumph and tragedy of unheralded Australian lives. (HANDOUT/BERNADETTE DRABSCH)

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.

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