{"id":7425,"date":"2009-12-25T20:28:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T09:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=7425"},"modified":"2009-12-25T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T09:28:45","slug":"snow-in-polygon-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=7425","title":{"rendered":"Snow in Polygon Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johan Vandewalle, who operates the ANZAC Rest<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (de Dreve) cafe at Polygon Wood and\u00a0was a key person in the recovery of the 5 Australian soldiers at\u00a0Zonnebecke<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>and the subsequent identification of 3 of them, has sent the following photographs of Buttes New British Cemetery, Belgium.\u00a0Johan is a civil engineer by profession who has developed his expertise in tunnelling and is\u00a0a co-author of the authoritative book B<\/em>eneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers\u2019 War 1914-1918<\/em>\u00a0along with British Historian Peter Barton and Professor Peter Doyle, Visiting Professor in Geosciences at University College London.<\/p>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Belgium,
\n22 December 2009 [Johan Vandewalle]\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: Snow-covered graves at Buttes New British Cemetery
\n[Johan Vandewalle]\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: Snow-covered graves at Buttes New British Cemetery and snow on the Butte and surrounding the 5th Aust Div Memorial, Polygon Wood [Johan Vandewalle]\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: Headstones of the Zonnebeke 5 with two unidentified Australians, Pte George Storey, Pte John Hunter and Sgt George Calder, Buttes New British Cemetery [Johan Vandewalle]\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo<\/strong>:\u00a0Not identified but not forgotten: Headstone of one of the two unidentified Australians of the Zonnebeke 5\u00a0[Johan Vandewalle]\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo<\/strong>:\u00a0Commrades committed to a common cause: graves of two unidentified soldiers, a\u00a0Canadian soldier and a New Zealand\u00a0soldier at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood\u00a0[Johan Vandewalle]<\/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":"

Johan Vandewalle, who operates the ANZAC Rest (de Dreve) cafe at Polygon Wood and\u00a0was a key person in the recovery of the 5 Australian soldiers at\u00a0Zonnebecke and the subsequent identification of 3 of them, has sent the following photographs of … 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":[66,87,93,101,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-memorials","category-polygon-wood","category-the-western-front","category-zonnebeke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425","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=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}