FLAG RETURNED

The appeal for the return of the Gallipoli flag stolen from ANAZC House in Sydney has been successful. The missing flag was returned anonymously on Friday 14 August.

For more details read:
ABC News: Stolen Gallipoli flag returned to RSL. Click here.
Live news.com.au: Stolen historic Gallipoli flag returned anonymously to ANZAC House. Click here.

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The Families and Friends of the First AIF applauds the joint Australian–UK decision, announced by The Hon Greg Combet AM MP and the Hon Kevan Jones MP, to conduct a full DNA testing program on the remains of Australian and British soldiers found in mass graves at Pheasant Wood (Fromelles), and for their continuing commitment to identify as many of the fallen as is possible. We also thank the Australian, UK and French governments for affording dignified individual reburials for these soldiers, buried by German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles on 19/20 July 1916, in the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery presently under construction at Fromelles.

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