{"id":4522,"date":"2009-06-24T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2009-06-24T00:15:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:15:32","slug":"pte-george-storey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=4522","title":{"rendered":"Pte George Storey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>In Honour of Private George R. Storey<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4523\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/24\/pte-george-storey\/pte-george-storey_sml\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4523\" title=\"Pte George Storey_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/pte-george-storey_sml.jpg\" alt=\"Pte George Storey_sml\" width=\"313\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a>Photo: Private George Storey<br \/>\n[David Storey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygonwood.com\/\">http:\/\/www.polygonwood.com\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Western Australian<em> FFFAIF<\/em> member, Sandra Playle, has provided the website with an interesting newspaper article which completes the final chapter of the story of Private George Storey whose body was discovered at Zonnebeke, Belgium in September 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of four other AIF men were also discovered buried with Private Storey. These 5 men became known as the Zonnebeke Five. The story behind the discovery of their bodies and the identification, so far, of 3 of these men can be read in<a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/20\/3-out-5-zonnebeke\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>3 out 5 @ Zonnebeke<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The descendents of Private George Storey gathered in King\u2019s Park (Perth, W.A.) on 23 May\u00a02009 for a ceremony to erect a plaque at the base of a tree\u00a0to commemorate Private Storey\u2019s death in the Battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4542\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/24\/pte-george-storey\/zonnebeke0001_sml\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4542\" title=\"Zonnebeke0001_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/zonnebeke0001_sml.jpg\" alt=\"Zonnebeke0001_sml\" width=\"257\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a>Photo: Newspaper clipping<\/p>\n<p>Details of the service and photos can be seen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygonwood.com\/Polygon%20Wood%20Site%20Map.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Polygon Wood \u2013 Website <\/em><\/a>. Detailed information on the discovery and exhumation of the Zonnebeke Five can also be found on this site by clicking on <em>Zonnebeke\u00a05 <\/em>on the bottom\u00a0left of the webpage.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the identification and burial of the Zonnebeke Five can be found at:<\/p>\n<p>NEWS Item: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/30\/re-dedication\/\" target=\"_blank\">Re-dedication <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>NEWS Item: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/01\/private-storey-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Private Storey Photos <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>*****<\/em><\/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\u00a0buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood by\u00a0German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles\u00a0on 19\/20 July 1916\u00a0dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds\u00a0the joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Honour of Private George R. Storey Photo: Private George Storey [David Storey http:\/\/www.polygonwood.com\/] Western Australian FFFAIF member, Sandra Playle, has provided the website with an interesting newspaper article which completes the final chapter of the story of Private George &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=4522\">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":[71,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diggers-of-first-aif","category-zonnebeke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522","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=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}