{"id":3479,"date":"2009-04-08T02:14:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2009-04-08T02:14:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T15:14:12","slug":"dinner-with-pompey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with Pompey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0An invitation to<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2744\" href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/03\/news-from-friends-15th\/pompey-elliot\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2744\" title=\"pompey-elliot\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/pompey-elliot.jpg\" alt=\"pompey-elliot\" width=\"88\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pompey Elliott Tribute Dinner<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">at<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">Ballarat College<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">1425 Sturt Street Ballarat<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">on<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0Saturday 18 April 2009<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\">Tickets: $75,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">available from the school<br \/>\n\u00a0or<br \/>\nPhone: 03 5330 8211.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Speakers\u00a0for the evening\u00a0include Tony Charlton; John Brit &#8211; former VFL star; and FFFAIF member and historian Ross McMullin. Ross will talk about Ballarat College&#8217;s most distinguished student: <strong>Pompey Elliott.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0*****<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\">The<em><strong> Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/strong><\/em> thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers &#8211; presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood &#8211; dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds Minister Snowdon and his British counterpart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, for their joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0An invitation to \u00a0Pompey Elliott Tribute Dinner at Ballarat College 1425 Sturt Street Ballarat on \u00a0Saturday 18 April 2009 Tickets: $75, available from the school \u00a0or Phone: 03 5330 8211. \u00a0\u00a0Speakers\u00a0for the evening\u00a0include Tony Charlton; John Brit &#8211; former VFL &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=3479\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","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=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}