{"id":12038,"date":"2018-07-22T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T23:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=12038"},"modified":"2018-07-22T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T23:21:58","slug":"sydney-commemorative-service-for-the-battle-of-pozieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=12038","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Commemorative Service for the Battle of Pozieres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Poziers-Town-sign-water-tower_website.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Poziers Town sign &amp; water tower_website\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Poziers-Town-sign-water-tower_website-300x279.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During The Battle of Pozieres, from 23 July 1916 until 7 August 1916, the AIF suffered enormous losses. Charles\u00a0 Bean, Australia\u2019s\u00a0 official war historian described the Pozieres ridge as being <em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The First Battalion Association will hold its annual <strong>commemorative service at Saint Columbo Uniting Church,<\/strong> on the corner of Ocean and Forth Street, <strong>Woollahra<\/strong> on <strong>Sunday 22nd July at 9:30am<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-001a-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2013-07-21 Pozieres Service Sydney 001a web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-001a-web.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo: The Scots College Pipes and Drums 2013<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-004a-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2013-07-21 Pozieres Service Sydney 004a web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-004a-web.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-010-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2013-07-21 Pozieres Service Sydney 010 web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-010-web.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Photo: The Queen\u2019s and Regimental Colours of the First Battalion enter the church carried by the Colour Party of the RNSWR<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-020a-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2013-07-21 Pozieres Service Sydney 020a web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-020a-web.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-028-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2013-07-21 Pozieres Service Sydney 028 web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Commemorations\/2013_Pozieres\/2013-07-21-Pozieres-Service-Sydney-028-web.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Queen\u2019s and Regimental Colours of the First Battalion are laid upon the altar during the service along with the Australian and 1<sup>st<\/sup> Bn Association flags and the Pozieres Cross and 1st Battalion AIF flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During The Battle of Pozieres, from 23 July 1916 until 7 August 1916, the AIF suffered enormous losses. Charles\u00a0 Bean, Australia\u2019s\u00a0 official war historian described the Pozieres ridge as being more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=12038\">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-12038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038","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=12038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12041,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions\/12041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}