{"id":6415,"date":"2009-09-23T02:36:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T15:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2009-09-23T02:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T15:36:40","slug":"fffaif-2010-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=6415","title":{"rendered":"FFFAIF 2010 Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

FFFAIF
\n<\/span>WESTERN FRONT COMMEMORATIVE TOUR<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Families and Friends of First AIF<\/em> inaugural Commemorative Tour will spend 14 days on the Battlefields of the Western Front from<\/p>\n

14th<\/sup> July \u2013 27th<\/sup> July 2010<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

During the tour FFFAIF<\/em> members will have the unique opportunity to follow in the footsteps of the First AIF on the World War I battlefields of France and Belgium, to coincide with the opening of the new CWGC Cemetery at Fromelles.<\/p>\n

\"Tour<\/a><\/p>\n

Members interested in finding out more information<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>about the tour can visit the Member\u2019s Area<\/a>\u00a0and click on the tour links.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

The 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":"

FFFAIF WESTERN FRONT COMMEMORATIVE TOUR The Families and Friends of First AIF inaugural Commemorative Tour will spend 14 days on the Battlefields of the Western Front from 14th July \u2013 27th July 2010. During the tour FFFAIF members will have … Continue reading →<\/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":[67,73,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorations","category-events","category-members-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415","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=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}