{"id":7533,"date":"2010-01-25T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2010-01-25T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T12:55:09","slug":"fffaif-tour-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=7533","title":{"rendered":"*FFFAIF Tour Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excited buzz is going around the 46 members of the FFFAIF who have signed up to fill the coach for the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/2009\/09\/23\/fffaif-2010-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commemorative Tour<\/a> which will spend 14 days on the battlefields of the Western Front from <strong>14<sup>th<\/sup> July \u2013 27<sup>th<\/sup> July 2010<\/strong> as they make plans, research and dream about their departure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/lijssenthoek-cemetery-poperinge_website.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7534\" title=\"Lijssenthoek Cemetery Poperinge_website\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/lijssenthoek-cemetery-poperinge_website.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lijssenthoek-cemetery-poperinge_website.jpg 448w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lijssenthoek-cemetery-poperinge_website-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Photo<\/strong>: One of the tour destinations\u00a0<br \/>\nLijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium<br \/>\n[Munro Collection]<\/p>\n<p>The tour has<strong> <\/strong>been designed to give members a comprehensive view of the Australian battlefields of Belgium and France during the Great War. Planning is underway to include the commemorative requests and cemetery visits of those coming on the tour. It is shaping up to be a memorable experience.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been considering joining the tour\u00a0but have missed out on a seat we are compiling a \u2018waiting list\u2019 of interested members who would like to come aboard if\u00a0seats becomes available. Please see details in the <a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/members-area\/\" target=\"_blank\">Members\u2019 Area\u00a0<\/a> on how to have your name added to the list.<\/p>\n<p>Matt &amp; Chris<br \/>\nTour Leaders<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#008000;\">The<em><strong> Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/strong><\/em> applauds\u00a0the joint Australian\u2013UK decision 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 with services commencing on 30<sup>th<\/sup> January 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excited buzz is going around the 46 members of the FFFAIF who have signed up to fill the coach for the inaugural Commemorative Tour which will spend 14 days on the battlefields of the Western Front from 14th July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=7533\">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":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-commemorative-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533","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=7533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}