A RECENT VISIT TO YPRES and FROMELLES

Meeting Harry Patch in Ypres, who had travelled there at the age of 110 to take part in various ceremonies, including signing a map of the Ypres battlefield where he fought on 16 August 1917, which will be presented to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. At Pheasant Wood, Fromelles (the site of the burial of around 400 Australian and British troops killed at the battle of Fromelles in July 1916), with Australian defence minister Warren Snowdon (centre) With Dr Tony Pollard from Glasgow University's archaeological unit, who headed the team which carried out the excavations at Fromelles at the memorial which Harry Patch had arranged to have placed at the spot where he advanced on 16 August 1917 in memory of his comrades.