{"id":9456,"date":"2010-11-19T00:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T13:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2011-04-08T01:11:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T01:11:21","slug":"fromelles-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9456","title":{"rendered":"Fromelles Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tickets are still available see below:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You are invited to attend the<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fromelles Retrospective<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">in Sydney<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">proudly presented by the <strong>Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>9:00 am Sunday 28<sup>th<\/sup> November 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The King\u2019s School<br \/>\nPennant Hills Road<br \/>\nNorth Parramatta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A series of presentations by key people involved in the story behind the \u2018missing of Fromelles\u201d addressing the following questions:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Why was there a battle at Fromelles?<\/li>\n<li>What happened in the battle?<\/li>\n<li>Why is the Battle of Fromelles not well known?<\/li>\n<li>How did Australian soldiers become \u201cmissing\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Who were the \u201cmissing\u201d soldiers?<\/li>\n<li>How were the \u201cmissing\u201d located?<\/li>\n<li>How were the \u201cmissing\u201d identified?<\/li>\n<li>How have the \u201cmissing\u201d been commemorated?\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tickets<\/strong> are available by <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">emailing<\/span>: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"mailto:fffaif@yahoo.com.au\">fffaif@yahoo.com.au<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>M<\/strong><strong>embers<\/strong>: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>$40<\/strong> including morning tea and lunch<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-members<\/strong>: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>$60<\/strong> including morning tea, lunch, 2010-11 subscription to DIGGER magazine and 7 months complementary FFFAIF membership<\/p>\n<p><strong>Students\u2019 special: $40 <\/strong>including morning tea, lunch, 2010-11 subscription to DIGGER magazine and 7 months complementary FFFAIF membership<\/p>\n<p>Please book early as there are a limited number of places available<\/p>\n<p>RSVPs no later than close of business <strong>Tuesday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> November 2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">TICKET SALES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CALL<br \/>\n0448 266 634 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">to book a seat for Sunday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00-9:30 Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:30 Welcome<\/strong> &#8211; Mr Russell Curley, President FFFAIF<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:35 Opening Remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:45 The Battle of Fromelles: why it happened <\/strong>&#8211; MAJGEN Paul Stevens AO Ret\u2019d, Director, Office of Australian War Graves<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30 MORNING TEA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:45<\/strong> <strong>The Battle of Fromelles<\/strong>: Mr Roger Lee, Head of the Army History Unit<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:15 The quest for the missing: research and advocacy that led to the archaeological digs<\/strong>: Mr. Lambis Englezos AM and Mr. Tim Whitford<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00 The Investigation and Recovery Project<\/strong>: The Australian Army Fromelles Project Group and the Fromelles Management Board: MAJGEN Mike O\u2019Brien CSC Ret&#8217;d, Senior Australian Army Representative, Australian Fromelles Project Group<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:30 LUNCH <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:30 The archaeology, anthropology and forensics:<\/strong> Richard Wright, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Senior Forensic Adviser to Oxford Archaeology<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:15 The Military Funerals and Dedication of the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery<\/strong>: MAJGEN Mike O\u2019Brien CSC Ret&#8217;d<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00 Where to from here: \u2013 The continuing search for descendants<\/strong>: (MAJGEN Mike O\u2019Brien),<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>The Fromelles Museum<\/strong> MAJGEN Paul Stevens AO Ret\u2019d, Director, Office of Australian War Graves, and<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; Other possible Western Front sites<\/strong>: Mr Tim Whitford &amp; Mr Brian Manns, Manager, Unrecovered War Casualties &#8211; Army<\/p>\n<p><strong>3:45 Closing remarks<\/strong>: Mr Russell Curley, President FFFAIF<\/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,\u00a0to 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,\u00a0in the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets are still available see below: You are invited to attend the Fromelles Retrospective in Sydney proudly presented by the Families and Friends of the First AIF 9:00 am Sunday 28th November 2010 The King\u2019s School Pennant Hills Road North &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9456\">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":[73,106,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fromelles","category-top-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456","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=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9815,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}