{"id":4009,"date":"2009-05-20T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2009-05-20T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:26:11","slug":"fromelles-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=4009","title":{"rendered":"*Fromelles action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commencement of the process of exhumation of the soldiers buried\u00a0at Pheasant Wood, Fromelles, in northern France was marked by a special service on 4 May 2009. (To read more on the commencement ceremony click <a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/10\/fromelles-ceremony-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4011\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/20\/fromelles-action\/18-05-2009-pheasant-wood-010_cropped\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4011\" title=\"18 05 2009 Pheasant Wood 010_cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/18-05-2009-pheasant-wood-010_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"18 05 2009 Pheasant Wood 010_cropped\" width=\"500\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Photo: Pheasant Wood archaeological site 18 May 2009. [Carole Laignel]<\/p>\n<p>Since then there have been new structures erected within the Pheasant Wood site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4012\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/20\/fromelles-action\/18-05-2009-pheasant-wood-014_stitch_sml\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4012\" title=\"18 05 2009 Pheasant Wood 014_STITCH_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/18-05-2009-pheasant-wood-014_stitch_sml.jpg\" alt=\"18 05 2009 Pheasant Wood 014_STITCH_sml\" width=\"448\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Large canopies have been erected over two areas on the site indicating that Oxford Archaeology has commenced work on the site.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4013\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/20\/fromelles-action\/18-05-2009-pheasant-wood-016_sml\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4013\" title=\"18 05 2009 Pheasant Wood 016_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/18-05-2009-pheasant-wood-016_sml.jpg\" alt=\"18 05 2009 Pheasant Wood 016_sml\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">These photos have been provided by Carole Laignel, Secretary of The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asbf14-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Association Fromelles-Weppes-Terre de Memoire 14-18<\/em> (F.W.T.M. 14-18 )<\/a> \u2013 The Fromelles Museum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><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 \u2013 presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood \u2013 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>The commencement of the process of exhumation of the soldiers buried\u00a0at Pheasant Wood, Fromelles, in northern France was marked by a special service on 4 May 2009. (To read more on the commencement ceremony click here.) 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