{"id":239,"date":"2008-05-20T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T03:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-05-20T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T03:10:55","slug":"anzac-day-at-v-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Anzac Day at V-B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/cross-51st-bn_yves.jpg\"><\/a>A crowd of more than 5000 people attended the special Australian Dawn Service at the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/anzac-day-25042008-116_carole.jpg\" alt=\"Anzac Day Villers Bretonneux 2008\" width=\"448\" height=\"251\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Carole Laignel,\u00a0Secretary of\u00a0the Fromelles Museum\u00a0shares her thoughts on attending this service:<\/p>\n<p><em>How happy I was to be at Villers Bretonneux &amp; Bullecourt yesterday !<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>you can&#8217;t imagine ? I was by the spirit in communion with you &amp; all your brave soldiers who died for us ! thanks to every one !<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.LEST WE FORGET !<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here is an internet site where you could go on to see some photos taken in the morning in VB ! Here it is : <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thellier.balloide-photo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#003399;\"><em>http:\/\/thellier.balloide-photo.com<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/v-b-_aerial-view-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Yves Fohlen also attended the service and has sent this photo&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-243 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/cross-51st-bn_yves.jpg?w=216\" alt=\"51st Btn cross @ V-B 2008\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size:small;\">\u00a0<em>&#8220;showing the original cross erected by the diggers of the 51st Bn in memory of their mates KIA at VB\u00a0 taken back to Australia and brought back to attend the 2008\/1918 ceremonies&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:small;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crowd of more than 5000 people attended the special Australian Dawn Service at the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France. \u00a0 Carole Laignel,\u00a0Secretary of\u00a0the Fromelles Museum\u00a0shares her thoughts on attending this service: How happy I was to be at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=239\">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":[57,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anzac-day","category-commemorations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}