Item #192377 FROMELLES. The Story of Australia's Darkest Day. The Search for Our Fallen Heroes of World War One. Patrick LINDSAY.

FROMELLES. The Story of Australia's Darkest Day. The Search for Our Fallen Heroes of World War One.

Prahran, Melbourne, Hardie Grant Books, 2007. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.vii+ 407. lack & white illustrations, photographs in text, index. Black hardcover lettered in gilt in pictorial dust wrapper. Item #192377

The diversionary attack on German positions at Fromelles was the first major battle fought by Australian troops on the Western Front. It was planned to stop the Germans from reinforcing their unit on the Somme, where the Allies had launched a major offensive earlier that month. The feint was unsuccessful. The attack was a disaster for the British and the worst 24 hours in Australian military history.

Australia suffered over 5500 casualties in a night, almost equivalent to the country's combined losses in the Second South African (Boer) War, Korean War and Vietnam War.

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