Attack at Fromelles
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The operation was conducted by XI Corps of the First Army with the 61st Division and the 5th Australian Division of the Australian Imperial Force against the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, supported b
Panorama of Fromelles, 1914.
Troops holding a well constructed breastwork near Fleurbaix, June 1916; one of the troops has a periscope rifle.
A German strongpoint in the Fromelles salient, July 1916
Troops of the 53rd Australian Battalion, only three of the men survived the battle, all wounded
Fromelles Military Cemetery is a First World War cemetery built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the outskirts of Fromelles in northern France, near the Belgian border. Constructed between
Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
A German propaganda postcard showing dead "English" soldiers (according to the German caption) arranged in a wooded area near Fromelles just after the battle of 19–20 July 1916. The Australian War Memorial notes that many of the soldiers are already covered with groundsheets: eyelets from groundsheets (used to lower the bodies into the deep graves) were recovered from the Pheasant Wood site.
Visitor Centre and Museum to the Battle of Fromelles