{"id":5946,"date":"2009-08-17T09:53:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T22:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2009-08-17T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T22:53:52","slug":"fromelles-diggers-in-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=5946","title":{"rendered":"Fromelles in news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Media reports claim that the ability to identify the remains of the British and Australian soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood near Fromelles is being compromised by the timetable to lift all of the remains by the end of next month and by the techniques used.\u00a0 European Correspondent for the Fairfax press,\u00a0Paolo Totaro has\u00a0reported comments attributed to British Historian Peter Barton and Belgium battlefields expert Johan Vanderwalle as being concerned that best practice archaeological procedures are not being followed.\u00a0 Click on the following links to read\u00a0more details\u00a0in the <a title=\"Melbourne Age Johan Vandewalle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/fears-for-bodies-of-the-fallen-fromelles-diggers-20090816-emcw.html\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Age<\/a>, <a title=\"Brisbane Times Johan Vandewalle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/world\/revealed-diggers-remains-at-risk-20090816-emen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Times<\/a> or <a title=\"SMH Johan Vandewalle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/revealed-diggers-remains-at-risk-20090816-emen.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5952\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/17\/fromelles-diggers-in-news\/rising-sun_0038_small_oa-tim-loveless_website-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5952\" title=\"Rising Sun_0038_small_OA Tim Loveless_website\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/rising-sun_0038_small_oa-tim-loveless_website1.jpg\" alt=\"Rising Sun_0038_small_OA Tim Loveless_website\" width=\"448\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: Rising Sun badge from Pheasant Wood excavation site [Time Loveless Oxford Archaeology]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\">The<strong><em> Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/em><\/strong> applauds\u00a0the joint Australian\u2013UK decision, announced by The Hon Greg Combet AM MP and the Hon Kevan Jones MP, to conduct a full DNA testing program on the remains of Australian and British soldiers found in mass graves at Pheasant Wood (Fromelles), and for their continuing commitment to identify as many of the fallen as is possible. We also thank the Australian, UK and French governments for affording dignified individual reburials for these soldiers, buried by\u00a0German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles\u00a0on 19\/20 July 1916, in the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery presently under construction at Fromelles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media reports claim that the ability to identify the remains of the British and Australian soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood near Fromelles is being compromised by the timetable to lift all of the remains by the end of next month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=5946\">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":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946","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=5946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}