{"id":4987,"date":"2009-07-22T03:23:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2009-07-22T03:23:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:23:37","slug":"pozieres-memorial-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"Pozieres Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">An INVITATION<br \/>\nto attend<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">THE FIRST BATTALION ASSOCIATION&#8217;s<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">POZIERES<br \/>\nMEMORIAL SERVICE<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4989\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/22\/pozieres-memorial-service\/127-pozieres-day-20080727-ak_100_0100\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4989\" title=\"127 Pozieres Day 20080727 AK_100_0100\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/127-pozieres-day-20080727-ak_100_0100.jpg\" alt=\"127 Pozieres Day 20080727 AK_100_0100\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">at<br \/>\nSaint Columba Uniting Church<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Ocean &amp; Fourth Street<br \/>\n<strong>Woollahra<br \/>\n<\/strong>(Sydney)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>on<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Sunday 26th July 2009<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">During the service the Colours of the 1st Battalion RNSWR will be presented by the 1\/19th Battalion RNSWR.<br \/>\nThe service will be conducted by Reverend Dr Alan Russell.<br \/>\nReadings by Lt Colonel Peter Morrissey, CO 1\/19th Battalion RNSWR and Mr Doug Cartan, 2\/1st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">The Pipes and Drums of Scotts College<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Morning tea will be served following the service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">*****<\/span><\/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;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An INVITATION to attend THE FIRST BATTALION ASSOCIATION&#8217;s POZIERES MEMORIAL SERVICE \u00a0 at Saint Columba Uniting Church Ocean &amp; Fourth Street Woollahra (Sydney) on Sunday 26th July 2009 During the service the Colours of the 1st Battalion RNSWR will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=4987\">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":[67,73,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorations","category-events","category-pozieres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","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=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}