Main Title: |
Don't forget me, cobber : the battle of Fromelles / Robin S Corfield. |
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Author: |
Corfield, Robin S., 1929-
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Imprint: |
MUP, 2009. |
Collation: |
xxii, 505 p. : ill., maps, portraits, notes, bib., index, hbk ; 25 cm. |
Summary: |
Background and style of the inquiry--Verdun and the Somme - origins of Fromelles--British 61st Division's first action--Preparation of the Australians in Egypt--Australian 5th Division's first action--German 6th Barvarian Division in action--Casualties, courts-martial and an Armitice--Medals and tributes--Missing and prisoners--Fromelles and Lille at the end of the war--Cemetaries, Memorials and memories--Eyewitness accounts and historians' views--Reflections in the 1930s and later--'Cobbers' at Fromelles and Melbourne--Finding of the missing. |
Subject: |
McCay, James Whiteside, Sir, 1864-1930 Fromelles, Battle of (France : 1916) World War, 1914-1918 Battles and battlefields Military history Fromelles, France
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Series: |
Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ;
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Edition: |
Rev. ed. |
ISBN: |
9780522855296 (hbk.) |
Notes: |
Prev. ed.: Rosanna, Vic. : Corfield and Company, 2000.
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