context1: After some convincing from Farley and <strong>long</strong> time FDR confidant Louis Howe, Roosevelt asked Farley to run his 1928 campaign for the New York governorship. Farley orchestrated FDR's <strong>narrow</strong> victory in the 1928 gubernatorial election, Farley was named secretary of the New York State Democratic Committee and orchestrated FDR's reelection in 1930. Farley was named Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, a post he would hold until his resignation in 1944.
context2: Research by an Australian amateur historian, Lambis Englezos, identified a site at, in a field at the edge of Bois Faisan (Pheasant Wood), on the outskirts of Fromelles. Bodies were transported there by German soldiers on a <strong>narrow</strong> gauge trench railway on July 22, 1916, before being buried in eight pits measuring approximately 10 metres <strong>long</strong>, 2.2 metres wide and five metres deep. Englezos believed that these grave pits had not been discovered during the official post-war burial campaigns.