{"id":1561,"date":"2008-10-21T21:45:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2008-10-21T21:45:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T10:45:32","slug":"preview-new-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Preview new Memorial."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Corps Memorial Park at Le Hamel is once again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dva.gov.au\/vetaffairs\/sept2008\/P01770B%20Vetaffairs%20Vol24%20No3_4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">open to the public<\/a>. The new Memorial will be officially re-dedicated at 3pm Saturday 8 November, 2008. This photo of the new memorial has just arrived from FFFAIF Member Yves Fohlen in France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/new-lehamel-memorial_sml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1566\" title=\"new-lehamel-memorial_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/new-lehamel-memorial_sml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Photo: Australian Corps Memorial, Le Hamel, 2008<\/p>\n<p>The original memorial was dedicated on July 4 1998 on the 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of one of the most successful battles of the AIF on the Western Front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/le-hamel-memorial_original_sml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1567\" title=\"le-hamel-memorial_original_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/le-hamel-memorial_original_sml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Photo: Original Australian Corps Memorial, Le Hamel, 1998<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0*****<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\">The<em><strong> Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/strong><\/em> thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers &#8211; presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood &#8211; dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and urge those responsible to ensure all necessary scientific and other means are employed to properly identify each soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Corps Memorial Park at Le Hamel is once again open to the public. The new Memorial will be officially re-dedicated at 3pm Saturday 8 November, 2008. This photo of the new memorial has just arrived from FFFAIF Member Yves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=1561\">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":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-hamel","category-memorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","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=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}