Book Launch Invite.

Lieutenant Colonel Chris Connelly, Commanding Officer, 5th/6th RVR

cordially invites you to the launch

by

Major General Mike O’Brien

of

‘Give me back my dear old cobbers’

the story of the 58th and 59th Australian Infantry Battalions

1913-1942

by

Robin S Corfield

at

the Menin Barracks, 127 Pascoe Vale Road, Moonee Ponds

2.30 pm, Sunday, 14 December 2008.

The MC for the book launch will be Lambis Englezos, a co-founder of the Friends of 15th Brigade, and who initiated the search for the Missing at Fromelles. Speakers will be:

• Lieutenant Colonel Chris Connelly, CO, 5th/6th RVR; host of today’s event.
• Major General Mike O’Brien, leader of the Australian Army Group entrusted with the recent successful search for the Missing at Fromelles.
• Robin Corfield, author of histories of 57th and 60th Australian Infantry Battalions, and  ‘Don’t forget me, cobber’ – an inquiry into what happened at Fromelles 19/20 July 1916.

Light Refreshments will be served.

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The Families and Friends of the First AIF thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers – presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood – dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds Minister Snowdon and his British counterpart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, for their joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.