Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery
Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery
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TWal1
Canberra, Australia2,944 contributions
Aug 2018 • Couples
Fromelles marks the entrance of Australians into the action on the western front. It was a baptism of fire, with horrendous casualties. Many bodies were interred in mass graves. This new cemetery was built in the last decade and reinterred bodies of soldiers from a mass grave found in 2009. About half of the bodies have been identified. It is a moving and fitting tribute to their service.
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Written 13 August 2018
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Patrick O
Tonbridge, United Kingdom28 contributions
May 2016 • Friends
The story of Pheasant Wood is one of a man's doggedness to finish a story of brave warriors and another groups desire to give remains a name. Visit and read need time to reflect in the museum afterwards.
Written 28 August 2016
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Peter0457
Blaxland, Australia327 contributions
Aug 2016 • Couples
Our guide Greg Celerse provided us with an excellent understanding of the development of the cemetery, its background and its positioning with respect to the battlefields of Fromelles. The cemetery is well presented, well maintained and strategically placed within the town, near the Pheasant Wood grave site and accompanying museum. A must visit for tourists to France.
Written 27 August 2016
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Peter A
Sydney, Australia182 contributions
May 2019 • Couples
Five and a half thousand Australians were casualties on 19 July 1916 at Fromelles the worst day in Australian military history. Many had no known grave until 2009 when a major search took place and this cemetery was created.
Written 23 June 2019
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Georges3350
Ballarat, Australia74 contributions
Oct 2017 • Couples
This is a great story, with Lambis Englezos' detective work to thank for finding the lost burial pits, governmental effort to exhume, identify and re-inter soldiers' remains, and local goodwill from the Village. Sad, as all these places are, but somehow peaceful. Also elating, in the sense that these men and boys who died fighting together, were lost, but are now found, have been accorded appropriate military honours and now rest together.
Written 5 October 2017
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Jenny K
Lake Macquarie, Australia61 contributions
Jan 2016
This is the newest Australian War Cemetery in France, built to shelter the graves of Australian soldiers exhumed from a mass grave near Fromelles. The visitors' centre is interesting and well set out, but the real story is in the lines of white headstones. In a quick glance at the cemetery register I saw names from all over NSW, including one young man from a little place near my own home. He's ended up a long, long way from Minmi pub, poor bloke. If ever a place should be haunted, it's the area around the Somme.
Written 7 January 2016
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treasurechild
Brisbane, Australia141 contributions
Apr 2015 • Solo
The Mayor of Fromellles Jean-Gabriel Masson gave a moving speech and tribute to the Australian Soldiers who lost their lives fighting to defend the village of Fromelle in the First World War. At this ceremony there was a burning of Eucalyptus leaves as an emotionally beautiful symbolic gesture to cleanse the past and start anew friendships between all cultures. On 19 July 1916 so many of our soldiers died and were buried in mass graves behind the German lines and not identified for almost 100 years. The 5th Australian Division suffered 5,533 casualties, over 90% of the infantry involved in the attack. The 61st Division suffered 1,547 casualties, some 50% of their attacking strength.
Written 30 April 2015
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Margie J
Nowra62 contributions
Jul 2014 • Couples
I found this the most moving war memorial I have visited in France. The museum gives a thorough explanation of what occurred at Fromelies and I came away with an understanding of what it would have been like for the young Australian men, most of whom were 19 - 25 years old and horrors they experienced there. I left the museum in tears and was overcome in the cemetery. I think having sons of the age do the soldiers that died there made it really hit home what a senseless waste/ tragedy this was.
Written 21 July 2014
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Pamf1962
Fremantle, Australia48 contributions
Jul 2018 • Solo
Next to the Battle Museum and well worth visiting along with a walk out to the German bunker and Australian Memorial. Make sure you have the booklet that explains it all.
Written 29 July 2018
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Skeney57
Sydney, Australia24,416 contributions
Oct 2017 • Couples
For the most under prepared Australian Division (5th) they were given the honour (or short stick) and thrown into the Battle of Fromelles July19th 2016 . My Grandfather, John Ernest , having enlisted in August 1915 went into his first battle and came out with GSW , only. I am eternally glad he didn't end up in Pheasant Wood MC as I wouldn't be writing this. But the poor buggers who didn't make it are now honoured in this lovely Cemetery and many have a name on their grave and can be individually feted by family & others ! The Battle of Fromelles was more of a Slaughter , 5533 Killed, Wounded or Missing, the "Heaviest Concentration of Losses in Australian Military History" ! A real chilling but still uplifting experience I think. no I know it is !
Written 17 January 2018
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Jinqua
Greater Adelaide, Australia
I only have one day free in Paris and would like to visit pheasant wood cemetery
If it make my own way to Lille is is possible to get to pheasant wood cemetery by public transport or taxi
Written 12 August 2015
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