{"id":943,"date":"2014-11-12T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=943"},"modified":"2014-11-12T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:41:30","slug":"fundraising-dinner-tuesday-11th-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising Dinner, Tuesday 11th November, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we had our first fundraising event, a dinner held in the heart of London&#8217;s Chinatown at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperialchina-london.com\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial China Restaurant<\/a>. With one hundred guests, great food and ample wine courtesy of <a title=\"See Woo Foods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seewoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">See Woo supermarket<\/a> the evening was a huge success.<\/p>\n<p>A moving\u00a0speech by Martin Horwood MP highlighted the ramifications for both the recruited volunteers of the Chinese Labour Corps as well as for China&#8217;s destiny.<\/p>\n<p>But undoubtedly the highlight of the evening was the unveiling of the donation of a banner created by men of the 130th Company of the Chinese Labour Corps and given as a gift to their departing commanding officer, Col. AA Kennedy. The banner carries significant historical data, with the names in Chinese of the Company, but most inspiring is the banner&#8217;s \u00a0message. \u00a0The four Chinese characters\u00a0\u5de5\u83ef\u53ca\u611b\u00a0can be translated as &#8220;Love for the Chinese Workers&#8221; and is an incredible reflection of the depth of feeling that the men of the Chinese Labour Corps should have towards Colonel Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Colonel Kennedy was explained by his grandson Andrew Denison, who, with his brother, Simon Denison, were making this most generous donation. <a href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=951\">Read the story and see the banner here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we had our first fundraising event, a dinner held in the heart of London&#8217;s Chinatown at the Imperial China Restaurant. With one hundred guests, great food and ample wine courtesy of See Woo supermarket the evening was a huge success. A moving\u00a0speech by Martin Horwood MP highlighted the ramifications for both the recruited &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=943\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaign-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}