{"id":1851,"date":"2008-11-19T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2008-11-19T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T13:12:10","slug":"1111-at-fromelles1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"11\/11 at Fromelles:1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French village of Fromelles commenced it&#8217;s commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armictice, when the villagers gathered on Friday 7 November\u00a0to preview the television documentary <em>La guerre de Bill<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0a film which explains the background behind the recent discoveries at Pheasant Wood Fromelles. To see a clip from the television show click <a href=\"http:\/\/nord-pas-de-calais-picardie.france3.fr\/emissions\/48159830-fr.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/bills-war_2_sml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1871\" title=\"bills-war_2_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/bills-war_2_sml.jpg\" alt=\"bills-war_2_sml\" width=\"306\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/film-bills-war-preview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1872\" title=\"film-bills-war-preview\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/film-bills-war-preview.jpg\" alt=\"film-bills-war-preview\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: Fromelles villagers gather for the preview of <em>La guerre de Bill. <\/em>[Carole Laignel]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asbf14-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#265e15;\"><em>Association Fromelles-Weppes-Terre de Memoire 14-18<\/em> (F.W.T.M. 14-18 )<\/span><\/a> &#8211; The Fromelles Museum &#8211; also arranged a display explaining the discoveries at Pheasant Wood<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/school-children.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1876\" title=\"school-children\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/school-children.jpg\" alt=\"school-children\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/panels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: Jean Marie Bailleul Vice President F.W.T.M. 14-18 with local school children at the exhibition. [Carole Laignel]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1874\" title=\"panels\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/panels.jpg\" alt=\"panels\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: One of the exhibition information panels. [Carole Laignel]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The commemorations continued on the\u00a09 November with a visit from the Governor-General of Australia, Ms Quentin Bryce AC. Details of the visit can be seen in RECENT NEWS item <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/19\/1111-at-fromelles2\/\" target=\"_blank\">11\/11 at Fromelles 2<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French village of Fromelles commenced it&#8217;s commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armictice, when the villagers gathered on Friday 7 November\u00a0to preview the television documentary La guerre de Bill &#8211;\u00a0a film which explains the background &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=1851\">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":[67,98,101,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorations","category-remembrance-day","category-the-western-front","category-top-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","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=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}