Tonight's speaker, Paul Cobb, is the chairman of the WFA's Wiltshire Branch.
His talk is entitled;
"Fromelles 1916"
Paul has presented this talk many times to various audiences, including our branch. However, he has updated it to include the events leading to the exhumation of 250 Allied soldiers (mostly Australians) who died in the Battle of Fromelles and who were subsequently re-buried in a new military cemetery just outside the village. Pheasant Wood was the first CWGC cemetery to be built in over 50 years and was constructed as the exhumations were being planned and carried out, with the burials taking place in 2010.
