{"id":11356,"date":"2015-04-06T07:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2015-04-09T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T10:20:34","slug":"fromelles-to-krithia-the-journey-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=11356","title":{"rendered":"FROMELLES to KRITHIA \u2013 The Journey continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?attachment_id=300\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300 aligncenter\" alt=\"fromelles_lambis-in-field-prior-to-dig\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fromelles_lambis-in-field-prior-to-dig-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fromelles_lambis-in-field-prior-to-dig-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/fromelles_lambis-in-field-prior-to-dig.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">(photo: C. Munro)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><b>FFFAIF member, Lambis Englezos AM, whose team found the lost Diggers of Fromelles in a mass grave alongside Pheasant Wood in 2008, has turned his attention to what he believes is another mass grave of at least\u00a0143 missing Australian Diggers on Gallipoli. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Together with John Basarin, a Turkish Australian volunteer at Melbourne\u2019s Shrine of Remembrance,\u00a0their story\u00a0was told by\u00a0<em>60 Minutes\u00a0<\/em>on Sunday night (5 April).<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">They first put their proposal to the Australian Government in November 2011, but were ignored until December 2014 when they received an email reply stating: \u201cWe will not consider any ground search unless we are certain of finding remains.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Deja-vous? Lambis met with similar resistance for years in his search at Fromelles, but wasn\u2019t put off then. He and John\u00a0will not be put off now. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u201c<b>We do have that moral obligation. If you can find your war dead, you gotta do it<\/b>,\u201d Lambis said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">To view the <em>60 Minutes<\/em> story go here<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9jumpin.com.au\/show\/60minutes\/stories\/2015\/march\/finding-cobber\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman;\">http:\/\/www.9jumpin.com.au\/show\/60minutes\/stories\/2015\/march\/finding-cobber\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An abridged version of the proposal sent to the Australian Government available <a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Krithia-Proposal-for-recovery-of-Diggers-11-11-2011-abridged.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">THE SEARCH ALSO GOES ON IN BELGIUM<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">An Australian businessman, Len Kelly, leads a team of British and Belgian partners as they continue their search for 83 missing Diggers from the 45<\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> AIF Battalion, lost since the Battle of Messines in 1917.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">They&#8217;ve pinpointed a field near the cross-roads as the resting place of the 83 men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark Donaldson VC, narrates the story of the search so far, and his report, shown on Channel 7\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>6 o\u2019clock News<\/em> Sunday (5 April)\u00a0 is available at<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/video\/watch\/26944045\/search-for-anzacs-grave\/?cmp=twitter\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman;\">https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/video\/watch\/26944045\/search-for-anzacs-grave\/?cmp=twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0(photo: C. Munro) FFFAIF member, Lambis Englezos AM, whose team found the lost Diggers of Fromelles in a mass grave alongside Pheasant Wood in 2008, has turned his attention to what he believes is another mass grave of at least\u00a0143 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=11356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11381,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}