{"id":6105,"date":"2009-08-22T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2009-08-22T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T22:37:47","slug":"fromelles-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=6105","title":{"rendered":"Fromelles reporting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Media reports on Fromelles continue:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/letters\/the-family-home-as-a-socially-useful-investment-20090820-erz9.html?page=-1\" target=\"_blank\">Fromelles report unearth&#8217;s conflicting views<\/a><\/em>:\u00a0Richard Wright Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,25959284-31477,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fromelles dig ignores hurtful attack<\/a><\/em>: The Australian, 21 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australia.to\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=13716:fromelles-recovering-overseas-australias-missing-supports-recovery&amp;catid=127:letters-to-the-editor&amp;Itemid=196\" target=\"_blank\">Fromelles &#8211; Recovering Overseas Australia\u2019s Missing supports recovery<\/a><\/em>: Australia.TO News.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/couriermail\/story\/0,23739,25958840-954,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Relics from World War 1 to help identify buried soldiers<\/a><\/em>: The Courier Mail, 21 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watoday.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/fromelles-dna-tests-set-to-start-in-sept-20090820-er6f.html?page=-1\" target=\"_blank\">Fromelles DNA tests set to start in Sept<\/a><\/em>: WA today.com, 20 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stamfordmercury.co.uk\/news\/Search-for-relatives-of-Private.5576406.jp\" target=\"_blank\">Search for relatives of Private buried in First World War mass grave<\/a><\/em>: Rutland &amp; Stamford\u00a0Mercury, 21 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au\/news\/local\/news\/general\/plea-to-wwi-families\/1602950.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Plea to WWI families<\/a><\/em>: The Bendigo Advertiser, 22 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6111\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/22\/fromelles-reporting\/excavation_website_oa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6111\" title=\"excavation_website_OA\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/excavation_website_oa.jpg\" alt=\"excavation_website_OA\" width=\"448\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: Oxford Archaeologists at work at Pheasant Wood [Tim Loveless OA]<\/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 on Fromelles continue: Fromelles report unearth&#8217;s conflicting views:\u00a0Richard Wright Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 2009. Fromelles dig ignores hurtful attack: The Australian, 21 August 2009. 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