this is an email I
received from a mate of Yves . . .
Ted,
thank you for your e-mail about my mate Yves Fohlen.
I have known Yves since 1998 by correspondence and finally met him with the
then Major John Phelan (now Lt.Col) and Lt.Col
Mick Byrnes from 42Bn. RQR at Villers Bretonneux
Anzac Day Celebrations and with another person spent the next day being
shown around the battlefields, especially
geared around the 42nd Bn.
Yves
mentor was John Laffin . Yves has written two
books. "He came from Australia",
about Lt. Percy Ralph 53rd Bn.
and the book he launched last year on 9th
September here in Sydney "With
Guts and Bayonets" about Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg
Line 1918.
Yves
stayed with me last year here in
Sydney
for several days
before visiting many friends around
Australia,
Sydney,
Adelaide
and Mackay. He
really is a "Fair dinkum Froggy
Cobber"
His
daughter, born in May this year, he named
ADELAIDE
.
Regards,
Alan K |