{"id":256,"date":"2008-05-21T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-05-21T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:51:40","slug":"cemetery-re-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Cemetery re-dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The small English village of Compton Chamberlayne can be found just a short distance from Salisbury in Wiltshire. \u00a0During the First World War\u00a0twenty eight\u00a0members of the AIF,\u00a0who died while stationed at\u00a0nearby camps, were buried in the village burial ground.<\/p>\n

On 26th<\/sup> April the Compton Chamberlayne Burial Ground was re-dedicated. The local Village Council, through a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund UK, has recently upgraded access to the grounds and commissioned new entry signage and a memorial cairn.<\/p>\n

The afternoon’s programme commenced with Colonel Peter Singh, Army Adviser, Australian High Commission,\u00a0London unveiling the new entry stone before villagers and guests entered the cemetery.\u00a0 The re-dedication service was conducted by local vicars, the Reverends John Staples and John Eade. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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The memorial cairn was then unveiled by Colonel Singh. Housed within the cairn is a visitors book and a collection of personal profiles of the 28 Australian soldiers buried at Compton Chamberlayne, compiled by Families and Friend of the First AIF<\/em> member Chris Munro.<\/p>\n

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The day concluded with an afternoon tea of ANZAC biscuits and cookies in the shape of Australia in the village hall which is a converted World War 1 military hut from the near-by camps. Colonel Singh presented the Chairman of Village Council, Group Captain (Rtd) Sid Adcock, with a Digger Bear who will now live in the village hall.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 The small English village of Compton Chamberlayne can be found just a short distance from Salisbury in Wiltshire. \u00a0During the First World War\u00a0twenty eight\u00a0members of the AIF,\u00a0who died while stationed at\u00a0nearby camps, were buried in the village burial ground. … Continue reading →<\/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":[67,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorations","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}