Missing Soldiers of Fromelles
Discussion Group

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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Discussion Papers
  ¤ Call For Government Action
  ¤ Putting To Rest The Missing
  ¤ Rights Of War Dead
  ¤ World's Best Practice
  ¤ Questions for CWGC
  ¤ Battlefield Archaeology
  ¤ Unending Vigil
  ¤ Open Letter to the PM
  ¤ Government Complicity
  ¤ Political Minefield
  ¤ Cobbers Remembered at Shrine
  ¤ Recovery, Identification
      & Disposal
  ¤ The Military, Media & Exploratory
      Dig
  ¤ Red Cross Digitization Project
  ¤ Keeping Alive The Memory

Biographical Databases
  ¤ Australian Roll of Missing
  ¤ Roll of Missing (PDF)
  ¤ British List of Missing

Internet Resources

Reading List

Glossary

Contributions
  ¤ Heroes by Joyce Sanders
  ¤ Fog of War by Ron Austin

Feedback
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Media Contacts
media@fromellesdiscussiongroup.com

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Other Resources
  ¤ Project Launch Document
  ¤ CWGC Charter
  ¤ Fromelles 1916
  ¤ Blunder at Fleurbaix
  ¤ Australian Army War Diaries
  ¤ Data Structure Report
  ¤ Unearthing The Past
  ¤ Red Cross Museum
  ¤ Australian Fromelles Project Group
  ¤ 'In Flanders Fields'
  ¤ Photographs, Postcards &
      Illustrations
  ¤ Notice Board

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Map printed on Page 5 of the Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania) on Monday, 24 July 1916. Australian Newspaper beta citation: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1041253.

The Somme Offensive
  ¤ 1916 Somme Map
  ¤ British Plan 1 July 1916
  ¤ Battle of the Somme (Wikipedia)

Miscellanous
  ¤ Fromelles DiG - Apology
  ¤ SBS Television
  ¤ Darlow Smithson Productions
  ¤ Deutsches Generalkonsulat Melbourne
  ¤ State Library of Victoria
  ¤ The Australian Greens
  ¤ Liberal Party of Australia
  ¤ New Zealand Government
  ¤ British All-Party Parliamentary War Graves & Battlefields Heritage Group
  ¤ The West Australian

THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION - Charter of Incorporation dated 21st May 1917 and Supplemental Charter dated 8th June 1964 [Disseminated in the public interest to encourage discussion and facilitate debate on the subject of the powers and functions of the CWGC, particularly in the context of the various treaties the organization has historically negotiated in the international arena with affiliate nations like Australia].

The purposes of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, formerly the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), are set out in its Royal Charter of Incorporation of 21 May 1917 and the Supplemental Charter dated 8 June 1964, copies of which were furnished to the Fromelles Discussion Group by Major-General J P Stevens, AO (Retd), Director, Office of Australian War Graves, Department of Veteran Affairs. The Charter and its supplement should be read in conjunction with the treaties that came into being on 26 November 1918 and 31 October 1951 respectively, which relate to the powers and functions of the CWGC. These documents have been linked to this website and together with the Discussion Papers already being hosted prove interesting reading, particularly in the light of the article published in 2006 by Associate Professor Bruce Scates titled, "Unknown then, and even more so now" which argues the CWGC is obligated to exhume, recover and identify the dead of Fromelles where this is possible and that such responsibility is encompassed by the organization's Charter.

View the Charter

PHOTOGRAPH: An Australian 5th Division soldier [Right], posing for the camera with his mates sometime in 1918. The soldier [Left] displays three service shevrons, one for each years of service, on his right sleeve while little is known of the third, [Seated].