Media coverage of the reburial of the Australian and British soldiers at Fromelles for the period from Friday 29 January, 2010 to Friday 5 February,2010
For the period since Friday 5 February, go to: Fromelles Media #2
Photo: Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
30 January 2010
[Carole Laignel]
Friday, 5 February, 2010
Sydney Morning Herald: Opinion: Best intentions can dishonour diggers
NEIL MCDONALD, Opinion
Friday, 5 February, 2010
This opinion piece has a significant number of errors and Jim Munro has sent a response correcting a number of these. Read his response in RECENT NEWS Item: Honouring Diggers
This has drawn a number of additional responses, including one by FFFAIF Member Tim Whitford, Great Nephew of 983 Private Harry Willis of the 31st Battalion. Read these responses at the bottom of Sydney Morning Herald: Opinion: Best intentions can dishonour diggers
Web Newswire: Fitting final burial for Fromelles WW1 war dead
Submitted by editor on Friday 5February, 2010 – 13:36
Thursday, 4 February, 2010
Fairfax Media – The Standard: South-west descendants to make Fromelles pilgrimage
EVERARD HIMMELREICH
Thursday, 4 February, 2010 08:54 AM
Fairfax Media – Western Advocate: Wright stuff: Sombre duty for our Mitchell
BY LOUISE EDDY
Thursday, 4 February, 2010 01:00 AM
The Stratford-upon-Avon Herald: SOLDIERS REBURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONOURS
Rebekah Smith
Thursday, 4 February, 2010
MK News (Milton Keynes): First of Fromelles war dead buried
Thursday, 4 February, 2010
This is south wales.co.uk – South Wales Evening Post / Llanelli Star / Carmarthen Journal: End on horizon for 100-year-old soldier mystery
Thursday, 4 February, 2010, 11:37
Wednesday, 3 February, 2010
Fairfax Media – Canowindra News: Lost local son found after 93 years at Fromelles: Soldier no longer missing
Wednesday, 3 February, 2010 09:41 AM
Tuesday, 2 February, 2010
Channel 9 NEWS 6pm: Australian soldiers begin Fromelles burial
Tuesday, 2 February, 2010
Monday, 1 February, 2010
The Australian: Memorial to soldiers can unite generations, says French mayor
Hubert Huchette, Mayor of Fromelles
Monday, 1 February, 2010
Photo: Hubert Huchette, Mayor of Fromelle [Carole Laignel]
Fairfax Media: Unknown Fromelles soldier laid to rest
ROBERT WAINWRIGHT IN FROMELLES
Monday, 1 February, 2010
The Australian: Old cornet sounds across a century of war
Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent
Monday, 1 February, 2010
Fairfax Media – The Standard: Reburial with dignity at Fromelles
BY ALEX SINNOTT
Monday, 1 February, 2010
ABC NEWS: Fromelles burials: ‘Our boys are in good hands’
By Tim Leslie
Posted Mon Feb 1, 2010 1:11pm AEDT
Updated Mon Feb 1, 2010 5:21pm AEDT
Includes quotations from interviews with Lambis Englezos and Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s, David Richardson.
It also includes links to ABC NEWS and ABC NEWS Breakfast Video reports.
CNN: DNA may ID bodies from WWI mass grave
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN
Monday, 1 February, 2010
UK Evening Telegraph: Ernest to get full military funeral after 94 years in a mass war grave
Betty Inman, News reporter
Monday, 1 February, 2010
UK Telegraph & Argus: Bradford pair among 250 dead from 1916 battle to be excavated
By Hannah Baker
Monday, 1 February, 2010
Gloucestershire.co.uk: Hucclecote grandmother “touched” by Fromelles service
Monday, 1 February, 2010 , 07:03
The Lowerstoft Journal (UK): Fallen of Fromelles given resting place
Monday, 1 February, 2010
Halstead Gazette: Fromelles relative helps Science Museum
Anna Faro
5:48pm Monday 1 February 2010
Sunday, 31 January, 2010
Fairfax Media: Fromelles dead laid to rest 90 years after battle
ROBERT WAINWRIGHT IN FROMELLES
Sunday, 31 January, 2010
news.com.au – The Adelaide Advertiser: Fresh appeal to help identify Fromelles soldiers
From correspondents in Fromelles, France and AAP
Sunday, 31 January, 2010 11:33AM
AAP: Govt hopeful remains will be identified
Sunday, 31 January, 2010, 12:25 pm
Herald Sun: DNA aids Diggers’ reburials
David Murray in Fromelles
Sunday, 31 January, 2010 8:48PM
ABC News: Fallen Fromelles soldiers laid to rest
Updated Sunday, 31 January, 2010 8:51am AEDT
Australia Network News: First of Fromelles soldiers buried with military honours
Last Updated: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:27:00 +1100
Telegraph.co.uk: First soldier from forgotten First World War battle laid to rest in cemetery in France
Sunday, 31 January, 2010
La Voix du Nord
Fromelles : après l’oubli des fosses communes, le digne repos du premier soldat du Bois du Faisan
Sunday, 31 January, 2010 – dimanche 31.01.2010, 05:06 – La Voix du Nord
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
Channel 7: Laid to rest
Chris Reason
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
Fairfax Press / AAP: Snow marks start of WWI Diggers reburial
BELINDA TASKER
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
The Australian: Australia’s Fromelles dead get proper send-off
Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
ABC News: Reburial for fallen Fromelles diggers
Updated Saturday, 30 January, 2010 10:43pm AEDT
The Scotsman, Edinburgh: First World War dead laid to rest
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
BBC News video: WWI soldiers who died at Fromelles are reburied
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
BBC News video: ‘Special significance’ of cornet played at Fromelles
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
Channel 4 News: WWI military casualties are reburied
Harry Anscombe
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
Times Online: First World War soldiers reburied in special service at Fromelles
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
Fox News: France Reburies Soldiers Who Died in WWI
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
News Distribution Service (UK): Fitting final burial for Fromelles WW1 war dead
Ministry Of Defence (National)
Saturday, 30 January 2010 11:00
La Voix du Nord
À Fromelles, le premier des 250 soldats du Bois du Faisan a été inhumé ce matin
Saturday, 30 January, 2010 – samedi 30.01.2010, 18:06 – La Voix du Nord
Photo gallery of the occasion: lavoixdunord.fr: Inhumation du premier soldat de Fromelles (30/01/2010)
Le premier des 250 corps de soldats australiens et britanniques découverts cet été dans des fosses communes dans un champ a été enterré dans le nouveau cimetière commémoratif.
PHOTOS MAX ROSEREAU.
Fairfax Press: The anguish of not knowing a forebear’s last hours and final resting place
JOHN HUXLEY
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
Fairfax Press: Hoping for a match to honour Uncle Jack
BRIDIE SMITH
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
The Citizen / Gloucestershire Echo / The Forester / Stroud Life: Fallen Glosters heroes to be buried with full military honours in France.
Saturday, 30 January, 2010, 08:04
BBC News: Fallen WWI soldier from Bradford to be laid to rest
Page last updated at 13:40 GMT, Saturday, 30 January 2010
Fairfax Press: Memorial site planned as Fromelles Diggers reburied
PAOLA TOTARO IN LONDON (Includes photograph of FFFAIF Member Peter Nelson and his 31st Bn cornet played at the service)
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
Friday 29 January, 2010
BBC News Magazine: Putting names to the lost soldiers of Fromelles
Using DNA scraps to finally identify WWI soldiers
By Peter Jackson , BBC News, Friday 29 January, 2010
BBC News: Fromelles Scots soldiers to be reburied
Page last updated at 07:17 GMT, Friday, 29 January 2010
Channel 7: Soldiers honoured (rehearsal)
Chris Reason
Friday, 29 January, 2010
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The Families and Friends of the First AIF applauds the joint Australian–UK decision 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 with services commencing on 30th January 2010.