{"id":6758,"date":"2009-10-12T22:34:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2009-10-12T22:34:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:34:48","slug":"cobbers-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=6758","title":{"rendered":"*Cobbers School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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the Cobbers School Fromelles<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Saturday 10 October, the Australian Ambassador to France, His Excellency, Mr David A. Ritchie, officially opened the renovations and extensions to the Fromelles village school. The school is now officially known as the Cobbers.<\/em> The renaming of the school reflects the close connection\u00a0between the small village of Fromelles\u00a0and Australia.<\/p>\n

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School extensions under construction, May 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

The main entry to the school features two clocks \u2013 one showing local time and the other Australian Eastern Standard\/Summer Time. Atop the building is a weathervane featuring a kangaroo replacing the traditional rooster (see top photo).<\/p>\n

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Dual clocks above the entry to the Cobbers School Fromelles<\/p><\/div>\n

Photographs from la voix du Nord.fr<\/em> website, Chris Munro and Carole Laignel<\/p>\n

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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":"

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