{"id":2052,"date":"2008-12-10T01:21:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2008-12-10T01:21:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T14:21:58","slug":"connecting-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"*Connecting Spirits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Young Aussies on the Western Front<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of young Australians from South Australia are presently visiting the Western Front Battlefields of World War 1. The group comes from Meningie Area School and Birdwood High School and are part of the Connecting Spirits Project, an initiative of teacher Julie Reece.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/connectingspirits.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Connecting Spirits<\/em> <\/a>website has a diary of their trip which\u00a0can be read by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/connectingspirits.com.au\/\/pages\/trips\/2008.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 5 December the group visited Fromelles and braved the adverse weather conditions to visit Pheasant Wood and VC Corner. The photo below taken by Carole Laignel, Secretary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asbf14-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association Fromelles-Weppes-Terre de Memoire 14-18 (F.W.T.M. 14-18 )<\/a> &#8211; The Fromelles Museum &#8211; shows the group huddled at VC Corner.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2053\" title=\"5122008-julie-reeces-group-in-fromelles-032_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/5122008-julie-reeces-group-in-fromelles-032_sml.jpg\" alt=\"5122008-julie-reeces-group-in-fromelles-032_sml\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Photo: <em>Connecting Spirits<\/em> tour group visit VC Corner. [Carole Laignel]<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">*****<\/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 applauds Minister Snowdon and his British counterpart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, for their joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Aussies on the Western Front A group of young Australians from South Australia are presently visiting the Western Front Battlefields of World War 1. The group comes from Meningie Area School and Birdwood High School and are part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=2052\">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":[67,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorations","category-the-western-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","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=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}