{"id":9506,"date":"2010-12-07T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9506"},"modified":"2010-12-07T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:11:41","slug":"brothers-in-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9506","title":{"rendered":"Brothers In Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Vanderwalle, co-author of <em>Beneath Flanders Fields &#8211; The Tunneller&#8217;s War,<\/em>\u00a0is visiting Australia in a quest to honour the fallen Diggers of the Great War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/img_0665.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6079\" title=\"Johan Vanderwalle with Lambis Englezos at Pheasant Wood June 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/img_0665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Photo:<\/strong> Johan Vanderwalle and Lambis Engelzos<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In 2007 Johan played a key role in the exhumation of five Diggers buried since 1917 in the mud of Zonnebeke Belgium.\u00a0To find out more about the \u00a0story of the <em>Zonnebeke Five<\/em>\u00a0click <a title=\"Zonnebeke Five\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/2009\/06\/24\/pte-george-storey\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">To hear the story directly from Johan The Shrine of Remembrance is hosting a talk on 13th December. For more details click <a title=\"Johan at The Shrine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shrine.org.au\/content.asp?document_id=2563\" 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,\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>Johan Vanderwalle, co-author of Beneath Flanders Fields &#8211; The Tunneller&#8217;s War,\u00a0is visiting Australia in a quest to honour the fallen Diggers of the Great War. Photo: Johan Vanderwalle and Lambis Engelzos In 2007 Johan played a key role in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=9506\">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":[71,73,82,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diggers-of-first-aif","category-events","category-melbourne","category-zonnebeke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506","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=9506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}