{"id":6960,"date":"2009-11-04T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T10:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2009-11-04T21:40:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T10:40:23","slug":"fromelles-on-sbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=6960","title":{"rendered":"*Fromelles on SBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Sunday 8 November 2009<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/logo-dateline-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6961\" title=\"logo-dateline-s\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/logo-dateline-s.jpg\" alt=\"logo-dateline-s\" width=\"141\" height=\"23\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">on SBS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">at 8:30 pm AEST<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Lost and Found<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em>Over 3,000 British and Australian troops were killed at the Battle of Fromelles on the Western Front, in what is still considered the worst 24 hour period in Australia&#8217;s military history.\u00a0<br \/>\nNow, thanks to amateur advocacy and commonwealth dollars, the remains of 250 missing from that night have been found and exhumed. The task of identifying the bodies through DNA analysis has begun, setting an expensive and complex precedent.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nBut the question remains, where are the other bodies, and should the British and Australian Government&#8217;s go looking for them?<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nFind out more this Sunday 8:30pm on SBS ONE.<br \/>\nThe program is repeated on SBS TWO on Monday at 7:30 pm AEST.<\/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.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 8 November 2009 on SBS at 8:30 pm AEST Lost and Found Over 3,000 British and Australian troops were killed at the Battle of Fromelles on the Western Front, in what is still considered the worst 24 hour period &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=6960\">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":[71,73,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diggers-of-first-aif","category-events","category-top-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960","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=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}