{"id":6661,"date":"2009-10-01T22:27:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T11:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2009-10-01T22:27:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T11:27:05","slug":"agm-special-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=6661","title":{"rendered":"Special Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/01\/2009-agm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Annual General Meeting <\/a>of the <em>Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/em> will be held at the Army Museum Bandiana, Wodonga Victoria on Saturday 10<sup>th<\/sup> October 2009 at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Prior to the AGM the<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">John &amp; Hazelle Laffin Collection<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will be launched by Major Docksey OAM at 2pm at the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Army Museum Bandiana, Wodonga<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/john-and-hazelle-laffin_sml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6674\" title=\"John and Hazelle Laffin_sml\" src=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/john-and-hazelle-laffin_sml.jpg\" alt=\"John and Hazelle Laffin_sml\" width=\"448\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fffaif.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/john-laffin_-portrait_website.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members and guests are invited to attend this historical event.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>FFFAIF<\/em> AGM Dinner will also be held on Saturday 10<sup>th<\/sup> October at the Commercial Golf Resort, 530 North Street, Albury, 7.00 for 7.30pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in attending the launch of the <strong><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">John &amp; Hazelle Laffin Collection<\/span><\/strong> email <a href=\"mailto:projectfffaif@yahoo.com.au\">projectfffaif@yahoo.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\">The<strong><em> Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/em><\/strong> applauds\u00a0the joint Australian\u2013UK decision, announced by The Hon Greg Combet AM MP and the Hon Kevan Jones MP, to conduct a full DNA testing program on the remains of Australian and British soldiers found in mass graves at Pheasant Wood (Fromelles), and for their continuing commitment to identify as many of the fallen as is possible. We also thank the Australian, UK and French governments for affording dignified individual reburials for these soldiers, buried by\u00a0German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles\u00a0on 19\/20 July 1916, in the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery presently under construction at Fromelles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Annual General Meeting of the Families and Friends of the First AIF will be held at the Army Museum Bandiana, Wodonga Victoria on Saturday 10th October 2009 at 3pm. Prior to the AGM the John &amp; Hazelle Laffin Collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=6661\">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":[56,73,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annual-general-meeting","category-events","category-members-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661","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=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}