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SUPPORTING THE CAMPAIGN TO IDENTIFY OUR WAR DEAD AT FROMELLES

SINCE ITS INCEPTION FROMELLES DISCUSSION GROUP HAS WORKED TO UPHOLD THE ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER WHICH UNDERPIN THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION AND THE TREATIES WHICH THAT BODY HAS NEGOTIATED WITH AFFILIATE NATIONS LIKE AUSTRALIA. THESE INSTRUMENTS, ESPECIALLY THE TREATIES THAT CAME INTO FORCE ON 26 NOVEMBER 1918 AND 31 OCTOBER 1951 NOT ONLY OUTLINE THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE CWGC, BUT PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF AUSTRALIA'S WAR DEAD AND REQUIRES THE ORGANIZATION TO EXHUME, RECOVER AND IDENTIFY THE MISSING FOUND IN CIRCUMSTANCES LIKE THAT AT PHEASANT WOOD IN NORTHERN FRANCE.

Convenor/Administrator: Grant Triffett

Affiliate Members
Bob Sutherland | Lillian Walsh | Alan Bennett | Geoff Tully | Peter Oakley

Visit the website and register your support for the identification of all unknown Great War burials related to the BATTLE OF FROMELLES.

See: http://www/fromellesdiscussiongroup.com/profiles.php

Fromelles Discussion Group was established near the end of 2007 and began operations as an internet platform in February 2008, with the express purpose of encouraging the Australian Government to fulfill the mission of identifying the recently discovered soldiers. As a result of public lobbying the British and Australian authorities have agreed to test the efficacy of DNA technology on a selection of the skeletal remains found in the mass grave and also (in spite of the generous offer of the current landowner to donate the current site to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission), to share the cost of establishing a new cemetery close by between Fromelles and the burial pits.



Lt Eric Harding Chinner 20/07/1916 aged 22 Back row, Eric, James Bills (brother in law), front row, Clive Chinner, Thomas Henry Chinner, Mervyn Chinner and his two children Geoff & Betty. for his Nephew named after him, Eric John Chinner, Great Nephew Stephen John Chinner & Great Great Nephew Jason John Chinner & Family


Pte William Joseph Cuckson 19 - 20/07/1916 aged 26 (standing) and his brother Pte Victor Cuckson who survived the War (seated)

Two Brothers Died The Same Day

Pte Eric Robert & Pte Samuel Charles Wilson 19/07/1916


Mjr Victor Horatio Buller Sampson 19/07/1916 aged 28 for his great nephew Greg Sampson (Tamworth Aus.)


Pte Arthur Russell 19/07/1916 aged 20 Left, his brother Sgt William Russell wounded at Fromelles, and later killed during the Battle of Polygoon Wood and is commemorated on the Ypres menin Gate. for Cindy Jackson (Rylstone NSW, Australia) and Frank Mahieu


Cpl William Polding Ryan 19/07/1916 aged 20 Son of Patrick Polding Ryan and Jane (nee Cooper). for Glennys Gow (Lismore NSW Australia)


Pte Frederick Rawlings 20/07/1916 aged 29 for his great great nephew Stephen Holding (Mt Helen Australia)


Pheasant Wood in Fromelles where a mass grave was found.
SUPPORTING THE CAMPAIGN TO IDENTIFY OUR WAR DEAD AT FROMELLES SINCE ITS INCEPTION FROMELLES DISCUSSION GROUP HAS WORKED TO UPHOLD THE ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER WHICH UNDERPIN THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION AND THE TREATIES WHICH THAT BODY HAS NEGOTIATED WITH AFFILIATE NATIONS LIKE AUSTRALIA. THESE INSTRUMENTS, ESPECIALLY THE TREATIES THAT CAME INTO FORCE ON 26 NOVEMBER 1918 AND 31 OCTOBER 1951 NOT ONLY OUTLINE THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE CWGC, BUT PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF AUSTRALIA'S WAR DEAD AND REQUIRES THE ORGANIZATION TO EXHUME, RECOVER AND IDENTIFY THE MISSING FOUND IN CIRCUMSTANCES LIKE THAT AT PHEASANT WOOD IN NORTHERN FRANCE. Convenor/Administrator: Grant Triffett Affiliate Members Bob Sutherland \| Lillian Walsh \| Alan Bennett \| Geoff Tully \| Peter Oakley Visit the website and register your support for the identification of all unknown Great War burials related to the BATTLE OF FROMELLES. See: http://www/fromellesdiscussiongroup.com/profiles.php Fromelles Discussion Group was established near the end of 2007 and began operations as an internet platform in February 2008, with the express purpose of encouraging the Australian Government to fulfill the mission of identifying the recently discovered soldiers. As a result of public lobbying the British and Australian authorities have agreed to test the efficacy of DNA technology on a selection of the skeletal remains found in the mass grave and also (in spite of the generous offer of the current landowner to donate the current site to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission), to share the cost of establishing a new cemetery close by between Fromelles and the burial pits.


L/Sgt Ernest Augustus Jentsch 19/07/1916 aged 22


Pte Herbert George Pollard 19/07/1916 aged 25


Pte Colin Henry Arnott 20/07/1916


Pte Cyril Donald Johnston 20/07/1916 aged 24