*Book Links No. 1

RECENT NEWS Item: Book Auction 23 August listed the books for auction on eBay to raise funds for the FFFAIF Inc. with the final bidding taking place on Sunday 23 August.

The books currently being auctioned can be seen on eBay by clicking on the following links:

Forty Days in 1914. Click here.

Eye-Witness’s Narrative of the War. Click here.

Somme Battle Stories. Click here.

The Battles of The Somme. Click here.

The auction provides an opportunity to purchase books from the professional library of the late John Laffin, noted Australian author and military historian. The books have been donated by John’s son Craig Laffin to the Families and Friends of the First AIF Inc and come with a signed bookplate naming the book and stating that it is from the John Laffin collection. The funds raised through the auction will become part of the John Laffin Memorial Fund – Keeping the Memory Alive Through Education .

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The Families and Friends of the First AIF applauds the joint Australian–UK decision, announced by The Hon Greg Combet AM MP and the Hon Kevan Jones MP, 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 presently under construction at Fromelles.