Fromelles

Helen Floyd took her mother, father and young children to northern France in 1983, to a tiny village called Fromelles close to the Belgian border.

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By the end of the project in 2010 all bodies found will be permanently laid to rest in individual graves at a new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Fromelles, the first to be constructed in fifty years.

WWI bodies to be recovered Thatsnews 2009

"I urge families whose relatives may have died here in 1916 to check the list of possible casualties and come forward if there is a chance their grandfather or great-grandfather died at Fromelles."

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By the end of the project in 2010 all bodies found will be permanently laid to rest in individual graves at a new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Fromelles, the first to be constructed in fifty years.

Archive 2009-05-01 Thatsnews 2009

They were joined by people from the local community, and those visiting Fromelles to pay their respect to the fallen.

Archive 2009-05-01 Thatsnews 2009

In a simple yet poignant ceremony Reverend Ray Jones from St. George's Memorial Church in Ypres and Fromelles parish priest Father Duprez blessed the site of the five mass burial pits, before the turning of the first soil began.

WWI bodies to be recovered Thatsnews 2009

"I urge families whose relatives may have died here in 1916 to check the list of possible casualties and come forward if there is a chance their grandfather or great-grandfather died at Fromelles."

WWI bodies to be recovered Thatsnews 2009

They were joined by people from the local community, and those visiting Fromelles to pay their respect to the fallen.

WWI bodies to be recovered Thatsnews 2009

Admiral Sir Ian Garnett, Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission said: Today marks the beginning of the journey to afford many of those killed at Fromelles with a fitting and dignified final place of rest.

WWI bodies to be recovered Thatsnews 2009

Work to recover the bodies of up to 400 WWI British and Australian soldiers began today at Pheasant Wood, in the small village of Fromelles in France.

WWI bodies to be recovered Thatsnews 2009