{"id":288,"date":"2008-03-05T12:03:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T02:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/03\/05\/old-diggers-cross-to-return-to-battlefield\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T03:36:18","slug":"old-diggers-cross-to-return-to-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/03\/05\/old-diggers-cross-to-return-to-battlefield\/","title":{"rendered":"Old diggers cross to return to battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\"><strong style=\"display: block\">A WOODEN cross dedicated to hundreds of fallen World War I Australian diggers is about to make a historic return to the former battlefields of France.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally erected 90 years ago in a muddy field where the diggers fought an epic battle against the Germans, the cross was sent to Australia in the early 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Australian soldiers were killed or injured as they successfully reclaimed the key northern rural town of Villers-Bretonneux in the Somme on April 24 and 25, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>And now as the village prepares to mark the 90th anniversary of the historic battle, the cross is heading back to France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,23245173-662,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A WOODEN cross dedicated to hundreds of fallen World War I Australian diggers is about to make a historic return to the former battlefields of France. Originally erected 90 years ago in a muddy field where the diggers fought an epic battle against the Germans, the cross was sent to Australia in the early 1930s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}