{"id":6993,"date":"2009-11-10T23:58:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2009-11-10T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:58:35","slug":"mhsa-host-fromelles-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=6993","title":{"rendered":"MHSA Fromelles Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

From
\n<\/strong>The Military Historical Society of Australia
\n<\/strong>Victoria Branch<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"MHSA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>An invitation to attend
\n<\/strong>a talk by Lambis Englezos\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Fromelles and Pheasant Wood\u2019\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/em><\/strong>A talk on the history of the battle, the research and most recent work at the site\u2026<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"MHSA_Lambis\"<\/a>Mr Lambis Englezos, AM<\/strong> is well-known as the amateur historian and school teacher responsible for discovering mass war graves of Australian and British soldiers from World War 1 near Fromelles in France.\u00a0 He became a member of the Order of Australia this year after being recognised for “service to the community through research and advocacy roles\u201d <\/em>relating to that discovery.<\/p>\n

The location of the Fromelles mass burial site was first indicated by Melburnian Mr Englezos\u2019 amateur historian research efforts.\u00a0 It took him over five years to convince sceptical bureaucrats and professional researchers that the burial pits existed.\u00a0 Now our lost Diggers will be recovered and remembered.<\/p>\n

On Thursday 26th<\/sup> November at 8.00 pm, Mr Englezos will make a presentation to the <\/strong>MHSA<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s meeting at the Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL in Drummond Street, Oakleigh. The presentation is open to the public.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The MHSA Victoria Branch contact<\/strong> is FFFAIF member Mr Steve Gray at 0409 809 434 or email vicsec@mhsa.org.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

*****<\/strong><\/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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Military Historical Society of Australia Victoria Branch \u00a0An invitation to attend a talk by Lambis Englezos\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018Fromelles and Pheasant Wood\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 A talk on the history of the battle, the research and most recent work at the site\u2026\u00a0 Mr … 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":[73,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","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=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}