{"id":7296,"date":"2009-12-09T00:27:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2009-12-09T00:27:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:27:15","slug":"anzacday-org-au-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=7296","title":{"rendered":"anzacday.org.au News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/adcc_logo_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7297\" title=\"adcc_logo_web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/adcc_logo_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anzacday.org.au\/aboutADCC\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">The ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee<\/a> was founded in Queensland in 1916 and continues to work to fulfil its charter to <em>commemorate our fallen heroes and to honour our surviving veterans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>FFFAIF member and Project Co-ordinator of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianwargraves.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian War Graves Photographic Archive<\/a><\/em> Matt Smith has been appointed the new Honorary Memorials Officer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anzacday.org.au\/commemoration\/commem.html\" target=\"_blank\">ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee<\/a>, Queensland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/matt-smith-adcq_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7298\" title=\"Matt Smith ADCQ_web\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/matt-smith-adcq_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo: 2009 ANZAC DAY Commemorative Committee,\u00a0<br \/>\nincluding Matt Smith standing in the back row<br \/>\n(second from the right),<br \/>\nphotographed with Queensland Premier Anna Bligh<br \/>\n(centre front)\u00a0and Opposition Leader John Paul Lanbroek on her right<br \/>\n[Matt Smith]<\/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>\u00a0The ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee was founded in Queensland in 1916 and continues to work to fulfil its charter to commemorate our fallen heroes and to honour our surviving veterans. FFFAIF member and Project Co-ordinator of the Australian War Graves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=7296\">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":[67,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorations","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296","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=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}