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30-SEP-2008

Cobbers Statue V C Corner Fromelles Belgium.jpg

The bravery of those who went out to rescue the wounded of Fromelles is commemorated at the Australian Memorial Park. In the middle of the Park is a statue, sculpted by Peter Corlett of Melbourne, and erected here in 1998. It depicts Sergeant Simon Fraser with a wounded man of the 60th Battalion on his shoulders, carrying him to safety and the work is appropriately entitled ‘Cobbers’. It cannot be the soldier who Fraser heard calling out ‘Don’t forget me, cobber’ as that man, Fraser said, was fetched in on a stretcher. Nonetheless, ‘Cobbers’ is a fitting tribute to all those Australians who scoured no-man’s-land in the aftermath of the Battle of Fromelles, a battle which cost the Fifth Australian Division 5,553 dead and wounded in its first operation on the Western Front.
This info at; http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/fromelles/fromelles-casualties.html

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