{"id":7262,"date":"2009-12-01T23:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2009-12-01T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:29:11","slug":"pheasant-wood-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=7262","title":{"rendered":"*Cemetery Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the local villagers of Fromelles are keeping us up to date with the progress of the new cemetery being built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. This new cemetery will be the final resting place of those soldiers whose bodies were exhumed during the recent archaeological dig at Pheasant Wood.<\/p>\n<p>The following photos of the cemetery construction were taken by members of the Fromelles Museum (<a title=\"Fromelles Museum FWTM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asbf14-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fromelles Weppes Terre de M\u00e9moire 1914-1918<\/a>), Carole Laignel (Secretary) and\u00a0R\u00e9gine Houvenaghel-Duretz\u00a0(Treasurer).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/fromelles-cwgc-cemetery_web1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7264\" title=\"Fromelles CWGC Cemetery_web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/fromelles-cwgc-cemetery_web1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/fromelles-cwgc-cemetery_web.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: Panorama of new cemetery looking towards Pheasant Wood. The base of the Cross of Sacrifice can be seen to the left of the photograph. [R\u00e9gine]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/burial-plots-nov-09_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7265\" title=\"Burial plots Nov 09_web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/burial-plots-nov-09_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: Individual burial plots can be seen in the foreground. [Carole]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>*****<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website <em>remembering Fromelles<\/em> has posted a report by Oxford Archaeology\u2019s Finds Manager Kate Brady. Kate described her role as a\u00a0<em>varied and incredibly interesting one, involving artefact identification, photography, conservation and research. In this project, the artefacts will form part of the suite of information that will contribute to the identification process for the individuals recovered from the Pheasant Wood graves.<\/em> To read her report click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/fromelles\/blog\/?p=567\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/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>Once again the local villagers of Fromelles are keeping us up to date with the progress of the new cemetery being built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 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