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Fromelles: The Final Chapters

Fromelles: The Final Chapters 1

The Final Chapters

by Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/06/2013
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For Honour. For Courage. For Remembrance. The Battle of Fromelles in France during the First World War was Australia's worst 24 hours. Thousands of men were shot down amid the horror of that blundered attack. The whereabouts of hundreds of dead soldiers was unknown for almost a century until the discovery in 2008 of unmarked mass graves at Pheasant Wood. The remains of these 250 men sparked a mission to reclaim their identities. Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle became key players in the identification project, volunteering their time and working alongside other amateur advocates and international experts. Tim tells how they pieced together fragments of information from relics, military records and family histories using genealogy data and DNA analysis. They fought to have authorities reopen investigations in their quest to find the untold stories of the diggers and reconnect them with their families. This is an inspiring, heart-rending account of war, its aftermath and its effect on the lives of the lost diggers' descendants.
ISBN:
9780670075362
9780670075362
Category:
First World War
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-06-2013
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
232x155x21mm
Weight:
0.37kg

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The incredible search and recovery of the lost diggers of Fromelles is essential reading. It is impossible to pick this book up and not be consumed by its humanity and underlying love. Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle have, along with a long list of committed researchers and historians first inspired by the work of Lambis Englezos, provided Australians and especially the families of these gallant sons, fathers and brothers, with a definitive piece of true history. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Lest We Forget!

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