{"id":121391,"date":"2017-10-04T06:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121391"},"modified":"2025-01-09T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T05:21:13","slug":"us-museum-to-return-wwi-soldiers-skull-to-australian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/04\/us-museum-to-return-wwi-soldiers-skull-to-australian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"US museum to return WWI soldier&#8217;s skull to Australian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121397\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7694729400_8050d7d5af_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121397\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7694729400_8050d7d5af_z.jpg\" alt=\"A Philadelphia medical museum says the skull of an Australian soldier who was shot in World War I and died days later will be returned to the Australian Army. (Photo by Anastasia R\/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)\" width=\"526\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7694729400_8050d7d5af_z.jpg 526w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/7694729400_8050d7d5af_z-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Philadelphia medical museum says the skull of an Australian soldier who was shot in World War I and died days later will be returned to the Australian Army. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anastasyar\/7694729400\/in\/photolist-d2AUjS-9P2AYE-d2AU9y-8smAbE-cHXuYh-qjoiUk-Wrgy5K-BTcW5o-4LC4WU-iEmZgd-48WuBu-mMQLRc-Jc54P5-d2ATBo-8K1ffy-d2AUQW-5XXX4f-d2AU39-65zPrv-qLhaq7-6w2ad4-aLnAyn-cppv4S-Curwec-cppuoY-67RJcj-5tXUPG-934iUr-BwwTg-fd33yJ-38aFwu-4PHHGG-c6AizW-4c5RH3-dRzKma-cppuSj-a2uyKA-9fixrv-yav58-yawqc-WXxo1Q-98QjFq-6YFRy6-8CuN1-TLbVYS-qFWsCt-9nR6kK-Sej3g2-kPQQYg-9MgHx7\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anastasyar\/\">Anastasia R\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\">CC BY-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 A Philadelphia medical museum says the skull of an Australian soldier who was shot in World War I and died days later will be returned to the Australian Army.<\/p>\n<p>The Mutter (MOO&#8217;-ter) Museum says a military attache for the Australian Embassy will meet with museum officials in the coming weeks to take the skull.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy azithromycin online <a href=\"https:\/\/cphia2023.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/azithromycin.html\">https:\/\/cphia2023.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/azithromycin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The military attache, Brig. Shane Gabriel, says in a letter to the museum that the remains are those of 27-year-old Pvt.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ozempic online <a href=\"https:\/\/cphia2023.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ozempic.html\">https:\/\/cphia2023.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ozempic.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Thomas Hurdis, of New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s announcement comes on the 100th anniversary of the soldier&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Hurdis was wounded Sept. 28, 1917, during the Battle of Polygon Wood in Belgium.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/cphia2023.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/symbicort-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/cphia2023.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/symbicort-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> He died five days later.<\/p>\n<p>Australian politician Linda Voltz has been pushing for the skull&#8217;s return. She says it is \u201creprehensible\u201d that it took so long for the museum to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 A Philadelphia medical museum says the skull of an Australian soldier who was shot in World War I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26079,26076,26078,26077],"class_list":["post-121391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","tag-australian-army","tag-philadelphia-medical-museum","tag-skull","tag-wwi-soldier","mauthors-kristen-de-groot","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281350,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121391\/revisions\/281350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}