{"id":4616,"date":"2009-07-01T02:58:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2009-07-01T02:58:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:58:25","slug":"memorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=4616","title":{"rendered":"*Memorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

JOHN LAFFIN MEMORIAL LECTURE<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sunday, 12 July 2009<\/span><\/h2>\n

ASHFIELD RSL CLUB<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

374 Liverpool Road, Ashfield (Sydney)<\/strong><\/p>\n

10am<\/span><\/h2>\n

Members, their guests and visitors are invited to attend the annual John Laffin Memorial Lecture<\/strong> to be held on Sunday 12 July 2009 at Ashfield RSL Club (Sydney) at 10am<\/span>. (Doors will open at 9:30.).<\/p>\n

Cost<\/strong> for the day is $12<\/strong> including tea\/coffee and light lunch.<\/p>\n

\"john-laffin_-portrait_website\"<\/a>Photo: FFFAIF Founder John Laffin [Anny De Decker]<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s lecture, presented by FFFAIF<\/em> members, provides interesting insights into the Gallipoli campaign:<\/p>\n

1st of the 1st \u2013 Landing on ANZAC
\n<\/em><\/strong>presented by
\nBrigadier Phil Carey (Ret\u2019d) AM RFD ED<\/span><\/p>\n

and<\/span><\/p>\n

Defeat at Gallipoli \u2013 The German Connection
\n<\/em><\/strong>presented by Joe Crumlin
\nHonorary Historian at the Army Museum of NSW at Victoria Barracks.<\/span><\/p>\n

*****<\/span><\/p>\n

If you wish to attend, please RSVP as soon as possible,\u00a0to FFFAIF Membership Secretary.<\/h4>\n

*****<\/h4>\n

The Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/strong><\/em> thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers\u00a0buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood by\u00a0German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles\u00a0on 19\/20 July 1916\u00a0dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds\u00a0the joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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