{"id":11111,"date":"2014-05-28T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T09:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=11111"},"modified":"2014-05-28T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T09:46:51","slug":"more-identified-from-fromelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=11111","title":{"rendered":"More identified from Fromelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 May 2014 the Assistant Minister for Defence, The Hon Stuart Robert MP,\u00a0announced the names of a further 20 previously unidentified Australian soldiers who died at the Battle of Fromelles in 1916.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sgt-David-Anderson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11112\" alt=\"Sgt David Anderson\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Sgt-David-Anderson.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"654\" \/><\/a>2560 Sgt David Samuel Anderson was amongst the soldiers recently identified<\/p>\n<p>The latest\u00a0diggers to be identified are:<br \/>\nPrivate John Edwin Crocker *, 32nd Battalion AIF, Adelaide;<br \/>\nPrivate Ernest Robert Oliver, 29th Battalion, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria;<br \/>\nPrivate Percy Weakley *, 31st Battalion, Adelaide;<br \/>\nPrivate Gordon Thomas Smith, 29th Battalion, Buxton, Victoria;<br \/>\nPrivate Archie McDonald *, 31st Battalion, Wyrallah, NSW;<br \/>\nPrivate Adolf Thompson Knable *, 32nd Battalion, Melbourne;<br \/>\nPrivate Edgar William Parham *, 32nd Battalion, Gawler, SA;<br \/>\nPrivate Vintam Battan Baker *, 55th Battalion, Sydney;<br \/>\nPrivate Willie Hilton Doust, 54th Battalion, Lower Southgate, NSW;<br \/>\nPrivate William Thomas Connolly, 54th Battalion, Durraga, NSW;<br \/>\nPrivate Herbert Newey St Smith, 55th Battalion, Tumbarumba, NSW;<br \/>\nPrivate Albert Williamson *, 54th Battalion, Canowindra, NSW;<br \/>\nPrivate Sidney John Gray, 54th Battalion, Goulburn, NSW;<br \/>\nLance Corporal Frederic James Glenn, 30th Battalion, Redfern, NSW;<br \/>\nCorporal Joseph Edward Lee *, 60th Battalion, Pimpinio, Victoria;<br \/>\nSergeant Jack Marchmont Campbell *, 54th Battalion, Glasgow, Scotland;<br \/>\nSergeant David Samuel Anderson *, 54th Battalion, Bergalia, NSW;<br \/>\nCompany Sergeant Major Harold George Woodman, 31st Battalion, South Yarra, Victoria;<br \/>\nCompany Sergeant Major William Henry Christian Rose, 55th Battalion, Rockdale, NSW;<br \/>\n2nd Lieutenant Reginald Theodore Griffen *, 32nd Battalion, Riverton, SA.<\/p>\n<p>* Photos of these soldiers can be seen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/images.defence.gov.au\/fotoweb\/grid.fwx?ArchiveID=5003&amp;Search=S20141451\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In May 2009 Oxford Archaeology started the exhumation of the remains of 250 missing soldiers from the Battle of Fromelles from a mass grave adjacent to Pheasant Wood, Fromelles. The first identifications took place that year with the aid of archaeological evidence along with DNA samples from descendants.<br \/>\nThe naming of these 20 diggers\u00a0brings the total of identified soldiers to 144.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To read the Minister&#8217;s announcement in detail click <a href=\"http:\/\/army.gov.au\/Our-work\/News-and-media\/20-WW1-soldiers-identified\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To read more about:<br \/>\nPrivate Albert Williamson click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralwesterndaily.com.au\/story\/2310831\/diggers-remains-found-at-fromelles-dna-technology-uncovers-canowindra-soldier\/?cs=103\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nPrivate Herbert Newey St Smith click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyadvertiser.com.au\/story\/2311171\/tumbarumba-soldier-gets-own-headstone-in-fromelles-cemetery\/?cs=12\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 May 2014 the Assistant Minister for Defence, The Hon Stuart Robert MP,\u00a0announced the names of a further 20 previously unidentified Australian soldiers who died at the Battle of Fromelles in 1916. 2560 Sgt David Samuel Anderson was amongst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=11111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diggers-of-first-aif","category-fromelles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11116,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions\/11116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}