More than 6,000 artefacts were recovered with the bodies of 250 Australian and British World War I soldiers at Pheasant Wood in the French village of Fromelles. they include this Bible page with passages underlined.
Personal Arifacts from Fromelles
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I saw Finding The Fallen just before Christmas. But I have read the texts before, so what was most moving about the young lives ended or maimed there were the artefacts located 90 years later. The Bible, for example, is so personal and so sad.
I created a link to my article on the subject at
http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2010/01/finding-fallen-1914-18.html . Many thanks
Hels