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Fromelles : the final chapters : how the buried diggers were identified and their lives reclaimed / Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle.

Fromelles : the final chapters : how the buried diggers were identified and their lives reclaimed / Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle.
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ISBN 9780670075362 (paperback)
Author Lycett, Tim (author.)
Title Fromelles : the final chapters : how the buried diggers were identified and their lives reclaimed / Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle.
Other title How the buried diggers were identified and their lives reclaimed
Publisher and/or associated date/s Melbourne : Penguin Group (Australia), 2013.
©2013
Description [xi], 262 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, map, portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Note At foot of title: Viking.
Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 245-247.
Summary The Battle of Fromelles is Australia's worst 24 hours according to the Australian War Memorial. As a result of the attack on 19-20 July 1916, the Australian casualties numbered 5533 men, including 1917 killed. For ninety years, the fate of the Diggers who broke through enemy lines was unknown. Then in 2008 the remains of 250 Australian soldiers were discovered in an unmarked mass grave at Pheasant Wood, and one of the great mysteries of World War I was finally solved. This is the story of a mission to identify and reclaim those lost Diggers. Former forensic crime scene investigator Tim Lycett details how determined volunteers worked with bureaucracies across the world to link the dead with their families nearly a century after the event. He brings to light the deeply moving personal stories of Australian soldiers who died on the battlefield of Fromelles, and who might otherwise have remained unknown forever.
Subjects Australia. -- Army. -- Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- History
Fromelles, Battle of, Fromelles, France, 1916
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Fromelles
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian
Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of
Genetic genealogy
Cemeteries -- France
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Playle, Sandra (author.)
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