BATTLE OF FROMELLES
COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES
The 93rd anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles which was fought on the 19 July 1916 will be commemorated at memorial services in Sydney and Melbourne.
IN SYDNEY on:
Sunday 19 July 2009
ANZAC MEMORIAL
HYDE PARK
Sydney
at
10:30am
and
IN MELBOURNE:
Sunday 19 July 2009
THE SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE
Melbourne
at
1:30pm
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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.
