*48th Battalion History

FFFAIF member Neville Browning’s book
LEANE’S BATTALION: 48^th Battalion A.I.F. 1916-1919
is now available.

LEANE’S BATTALION is the History of the 48th Battalion A.I.F. in World War 1, from its formation in Egypt in 1916 to its war service on the Western Front.

LEANE’S BATTALION is a hard covered, cloth-bound, 480-page, B5 volume with a dust-wrapper, containing 285 photographs and maps, as well as hundreds of eye-witness reports from contemporary diaries, letters, reports and journals of 48th Battalion men. Most of the photographs, journals and diaries are from private sources across Australia and therefore never published.

The volume includes daily descriptions of life and death on the Western Front amidst battles such as Pozieres, Bullecourt, Messines, Passchendaele, Dernancourt, Monument Wood, Amiens and the Hindenburg Line.

Appendices include Nominal Roll, Honour Roll, Awards and Citations, Nominal Index and POW Roll.

Signed copies of the book are available direct from the author.
You can download the order form by clicking on this link
Leane’s Battalion 48th Bn Order Form.
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A special offer is available to FFFAIF member’s: orders will be delivered free of charge – please write your membership number on the order form.

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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.