{"id":26381,"date":"2019-12-04T08:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=26381"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:57:30","slug":"from-the-branch-december-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/04\/from-the-branch-december-4\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Branch &#8211; December 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-CREST.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2853\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-CREST-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-CREST-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-CREST-423x600.jpg 423w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-CREST.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>Yes, December is here and this means a busy time at the Branch.\u00a0Especially for our culinary experts from the Ladies Auxiliary.\u00a0Joan&#8217;s cookie walk will be on December 14 from 11.00 am till 1.00 pm.\u00a0Our membership chair is still waiting for a few\u00a0 members to get their 2020 membership cards.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>And we all wish Comrade Dick Watson a speedy recovery.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/William-Hurrell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26393 \" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/William-Hurrell-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/William-Hurrell-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/William-Hurrell-442x600.jpg 442w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/William-Hurrell.jpg 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/a>75 years ago, a young British pilot got surprised over Apeldoorn in his Hawker Typhoon by several German fighters.\u00a0He was shot down and crashed in Eefde in a meadow; and according to a boy who witnessed it the aircraft it when straight down\u00a0and several meters into the soft field with hardly anything above ground. It was excavated a few weeks ago and the remains of Pilot William Hurrell\u00a0were recovered and the RAF advised. His family who now live in Australia came for the funeral ceremony and he will be buried in Oosterbeek\u00a0War Cemetery.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><em>Mary called her Dad and said &#8220;There is a man at the door with a moustache&#8221;.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Dad looking up from his paper said &#8220;Tell him I already got one!&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>To all our Comrades sick at home, in the hospital or nursing homes you are in our thoughts and prayers and we wish you well.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, December is here and this means a busy time at the Branch.\u00a0Especially for our culinary experts from the Ladies Auxiliary.\u00a0Joan&#8217;s cookie walk will be on December 14 from 11.00 am till 1.00 pm.\u00a0Our membership chair is still waiting for a few\u00a0 members to get their 2020 membership cards. &nbsp; And we all wish Comrade &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-26381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-from-the-branch"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 10:46:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26395,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26381\/revisions\/26395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}