Don't forget me, cobber

Don’t forget me, cobber – Book launch

The much anticipated updated edition of Robin Corfield’s book, Don’t forget me, cobber, is the extraordinary story of the lead-up to the battle, the battle itself, as well as the successful search for the ‘missing of Fromelles’. Lost in mass grave pits since 1916, the remains of Australian and British soldiers have been discovered after seven years of campaigning by Lambis Englezos, who also writes of his experience here. The book also includes a complete Roll of Honour of the British and Australians killed, as well as some of the Germans.

On the evening of 19 July 1916 on a strip of farmland north of Fromelles, the AIF fought its first battle in France. Outnumbered two to one, a well-organised German division faced two divisions, one Australian and the other British, and yet inflicted a costly defeat. By dusk the following day there were 2436 Allies dead and 4123 wounded, no territory gained and only 501 Germans killed and 943 injured.

Major General Mike O’Brien, the senior Australian Army officer responsible for the Fromelles Project, will launch Don’t forget me, cobber at The Shrine, Melbourne on 19 July 2009 at 2:15pm. The launch will follow the 1:30pm commemorative service for The Battle of Fromelles. 

Scroll down for details of special book offer for FFFAIF members and visitors to this website.

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is offering members of the Families and Friends of the First AIF and visitors to this www.fffaif.org.au website a special discount on exclusive signed copies of Don’t forget me, cobber.
RRP$59.99, Special price for FFFAIF Members $49.99 (including postage anywhere in Australia)

Click here to download the special discount price order form or email profectfffaif@yahoo.com.au to obtain an order form.

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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 buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood by German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles on 19/20 July 1916 dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds the joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.