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<\/a>\n<\/strong>Photo: <\/strong>The weathervane atop Fromelles School [Wayne Worladge]<\/p>\n
President of the RVPA, Helen Worladge, is a grand-niece of Simon Fraser, the soldier immortalized in the \u201cCobbers\u201d statues at Fromelles and Melbourne. Helen travelled with her husband and daughter to Fromelles in November 2009 and met Carole Laignel and Mayor Hubert Huchette.<\/p>\n
After Helen’s return to Australia, a visit to Reader\u2019s Feast Bookshop in Melbourne was duly\u00a0arranged to select the books for the school. Mary Dalmau, Manager of the bookshop not only assisted in choosing the books but also contributed extra books and paid for the freight.<\/p>\n Hubert Huchette has provided the following photos of the children enjoying the\u00a0delivery of the books to the school.<\/p>\n The books included:<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Our thanks to Helen and Wayne for sharing their story. *****<\/p>\n The Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/em><\/strong> thanks the Australian, UK and French Governments for affording Australian and British soldiers dignified individual reburials in the new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds the Australian and British Governments for their joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Late in 2009, members of the Retired Victorian Principals Association (RVPA) were privileged and delighted to be addressed by Lambis Englezos AM on the background to the Battle of Fromelles and the much later discovery of the buried soldiers at … Continue reading <\/a>Photo:<\/strong>\u00a0Helen Worladge (right)\u00a0and\u00a0daughter\u00a0Louisa\u00a0outside \u2018Cobbers School\u2019 at Fromelles [Wayne Worladge]\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nPhoto: <\/strong>The Fromelles School clocks show both local and Australian EST [Wayne Worladge]<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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