{"id":10058,"date":"2011-09-24T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=10058"},"modified":"2011-09-24T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:48:32","slug":"abide-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=10058","title":{"rendered":"Abide With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FFFAIF member and film maker, Damian Madden has a short documentary film (4m:19s) about a World War I soldier, Lt John Gotch Ridley MC (53<sup>rd<\/sup> Infantry Battalion AIF), named as a finalist in a Sydney Film Festival \u2018Ignite Film Fest\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/md-cpanel04.websiteactive.com\/~ffff1111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lt-John-Gotch-Ridley-.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/md-cpanel04.websiteactive.com\/~ffff1111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lt-John-Gotch-Ridley-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10062\" title=\"Lt John Ridley\" src=\"http:\/\/md-cpanel04.websiteactive.com\/~ffff1111\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lt-John-Gotch-Ridley--216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lt-John-Gotch-Ridley--216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Lt-John-Gotch-Ridley-.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>John Ridley [left] started a bible study group on the battlefields of The Western Front to help his fellow troops get through those tough times. He was awarded a Military Cross for acts of bravery in action at Bellicourt in 1918, risking his own life to bring ammunition and rations to the front line and for rescuing the wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The film, <strong><em>\u2018Abide With Me\u2019 \u2013<\/em> <\/strong>along with 11 other finalists \u2013 is up on their website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignitefilmfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ignitefilmfest.com\/<\/a> at present for the people\u2019s choice award part of the competition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is worth a look and should you choose, you are able to vote for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Voting closes at 5pm on Thursday, 29 September (AEST) with the winner announced on the website at 9am the next day.<\/p>\n<p>FFFAIF wishes Damian all the best for the competition and offers its thanks for his part in perpetuating Digger Heritage and Keeping The Memory Alive.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FFFAIF member and film maker, Damian Madden has a short documentary film (4m:19s) about a World War I soldier, Lt John Gotch Ridley MC (53rd Infantry Battalion AIF), named as a finalist in a Sydney Film Festival \u2018Ignite Film Fest\u2019. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=10058\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-members-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10058"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10066,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10058\/revisions\/10066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}