THE BATTLE OF FROMELLES WITH GOOGLE MAP

 

The Battlefield Tour The battlefield tour includes an in-text map, a visit to the Fromelles museum, to the Australian memorials, to the new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and to where Adolf Hitler was billeted in 1916. Fromelles is described in our Guide Book to the Western Front North. The Battle of Fromelles - a brief summary of what is in the book The battle of Fromelles opened at 1800 hours on 19 July 1916 when the Australian 5th Division, which had arrived from Egypt less than two weeks earlier, and the British 61st Division, attacked German positions to the north-east of the village. Despite briefly entering and holding part of the German line the Australians were driven out by enemy counter-attacks and were back in their own lines the following day. The 5th Division lost some 5,500 men, the 61st about 1,500 and the Germans almost 2,000.     The picture on the far left shows the unveiling of the Liverpool Scottish Memorial and to the immediate left is the Memorial to Sgt Bondar   View Fromelles First World War Memorials in a larger map

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