suspected australian mass grave at fromelles

[bluedog]

Could any member give me any information on the australian mass grave at fromelles that was reported in the australian press

[AOK4]

Hello,

There's a thread somewhere about this. Just type in Fromelles or something like that in the search engine and you'll undoubtedly find it.

Regards,

Jan

[Ally]

Hello,

Your forum was very helpful to me last year. Now I am trying to find out about

another relative who fought in the 55th bn, AIF at Fromelles. He was taken prisoner of the Germans on 20th July, 1916. I have found a record which I cannot understand. It looks like he was held prisoner at GEF.Dulmen.i.west f, according to a list supplied by the Germans on 12.8.1916, and was being held

at Gef: Munster 2 on a German list of 30.9.1916. Presumably these are the names of POW camps in Germany ?? A google search fails to bring anything up. I may have the spelling wrong, as the online

record was difficult to read clearly.

If anyone can shed any light on this I would be most grateful. Maybe somebody knows where Aussies who were taken prisoner at the disastrous battle of Fromelles were taken??

Many thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Ally McRae

[delta]

"Dulmen.i.west f" possiblty Dulmen (currently a site of a British garrison town) 20kms to the south of Munster?

[bernardmcilwaine]

ally,its gefangenen dulmen,westphalia,its a POW camp,a lot of the manchesters were in this camp who were captured in 1916,bernard

[Neil Mackenzie]

Ally.

This topic gives details of a book on WW1 POW camps in Germany.

Neil