{"id":229,"date":"2008-03-17T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T10:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-03-17T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T10:06:24","slug":"56th-btn-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"56th Btn History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"56th Battalion colour\u00a0patch\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/colour-patch-56th_website.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/colour-patch-56th_website.jpg\" alt=\"56th Battalion colour\u00a0patch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two employees of the Australian War Memorial (Craig Tibbitts and Nick Fletcher), have recently embarked upon a new research project &#8211; the writing of a unit history for the <strong>56th Battalion<\/strong>,\u00a0AIF during the First World War.\u00a0 This is one of the few remaining AIF infantry battalions\u00a0yet to have a history written.\u00a0While the authors\u00a0have access to a wealth of official papers on the unit and its men, they would be keen to hear from anyone who might\u00a0be able to relate some more\u00a0personal stories about those who served in the 56th (a NSW battalion), especially through personal diaries, letters, postcards or photographs.<br \/>\nIf you can help, please do one of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contact us online (leave a comment) via the project blog <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/halfhundredweights.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/halfhundredweights.wordpress.com\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Send an email to <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/au.f532.mail.yahoo.com\/ym\/Compose?To=Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/au.f532.mail.yahoo.com\/ym\/Compose?To=Craig.Tibbitts@awm.gov.au<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Phone (02) 6243 4318 (w)<\/li>\n<li>Write to Craig Tibbitts, 6 Rienits Place, McKellar ACT, 2617.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two employees of the Australian War Memorial (Craig Tibbitts and Nick Fletcher), have recently embarked upon a new research project &#8211; the writing of a unit history for the 56th Battalion,\u00a0AIF during the First World War.\u00a0 This is one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=229\">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-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}