*FROMELLES FROST

The mayor of Fromelles, Hubert Huchett, has captured the winter on the Western Front in the following photos.

The Australian Memorial Park, Fromelles, can be seen dusted in snow.

The Cobbers Statue photo portrays a clear picture of the conditions under which the allied troops fought during the Great War.

VC Corner Australian Cemetery’s rose bushes are bare in the winter weather.

Nearby Pheasant Wood takes on a very different appearance to the archaeological dig site of May 2008, now covered in snow.

The Memorial Plaque at Pheasant Wood, which marks the location of the burial pits in which it is believed over 400 allied troops who died at the Battle of Fromelles on 19 and 20 July 1916 are buried, appears serene, wearing a shroud of white snow.

Lest We Forget

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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.

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 FFFAIF supports the inscription of “FROMELLES” on National and State Memorials