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Families and Friends of the First AIF
Members of The Families and Friends of the First AIF recently returned from the inaugural Western Front Commemorative Tour from 14th to 27th July 2010. Find more about the Tour in RECENT NEWS Item: FFFAIF WF Tour Report
Photo: FFFAIF Tour Group at Australian National Memorial,
Villers Bretonneux [Heather Ford]
During the Tour members attended the Dedication and Burial at Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery on 19th July 2010. Read more about the commemorations in RECENT NEWS Item: Fromelles’ Dedication.
Photo: HRH Prince Charles and The Demassiet Family
[Carole Laignel]
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On 1st July 2010 the Commonwealth War Graves Commission will release its latest publication – Remembering Fromelles.
To find out more about the book and how to obtain your copy see RECENT NEWS Item Remembering Fromelles.
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More Fromelles Soldiers’ names
Photo: 3047 Private Robert Arthur Dewar, 55th Battalion
The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel, Alan Griffin, on Saturday 8 May announced the names of a further 19 soldiers who were recently reburied in Fromelles, France. See RECENT NEWS Item: More Fromelles names for the list of names and links to information on some of the 94 Australian soldiers identified.
Information relating to Fromelles Cemetery Layout, Soldiers names and re-burials
If you are looking for information on:
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the layout of the new CWGC Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery showing the burial positions for the 75 named and 128 un-named Australians, 3 un-named British and remaining 44 unidentified soldiers and some analysis of accounting for the “unaccounted for” soldiers killed in the battle of Fromelles;
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stories, profiles and information on some of the identified soldiers;
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links to media reports related to the identification of Soldiers whose remains were recovered from the burial pits at Pheasant Wood;
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The Joint Identification Board, co-chaired by Major General Mike O’Brien from the Australian Army, and Air Commodore Chris Bray from the Royal Air Force,
these have been relocated to RECENT NEWS Item: Fromelles ID & graves
If you are looking for information relating to the reburial of the remains of soldiers recovered from the burial pits at Pheasant Wood in the new CWGC Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, these have been relocated to RECENT NEWS Item: Fromelles re-burials
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1 September 1918 Battle of Mont St. Quentin continues
11 September 1914 Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force lands at Rabaul.
14 September 1914 HMA Submarine AE1 lost off New Guinea
17 September 1918 Australian attack on Hindenburg Line in the Picardy region of France.
19 September 1918 5th Light Horse brigade capture Nablus.
20 September 1912 Official formation of the Australian Flying Corps.
21 September 1914 German New Guinea surrenders.
25 September 1918 Anzac Mounted Division capture Amman.
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The Families and Friends of the First AIF applauds the joint Australian–UK decision, to conduct a full DNA testing program on the remains of Australian and British soldiers found in mass graves at Pheasant Wood (Fromelles), and for their continuing commitment to identify as many of the fallen as is possible. We also thank the Australian, UK and French governments for affording dignified individual reburials for these soldiers, buried by German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles on 19/20 July 1916, in the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery.
