{"id":3650,"date":"2023-07-08T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2023-07-08T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:02:13","slug":"maitland-addison-a-c-lt-1st-cheshire-regiment-attd-royal-flying-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/08\/maitland-addison-a-c-lt-1st-cheshire-regiment-attd-royal-flying-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Maitland-Addison A C Lt 1st Cheshire Regiment Attd Royal Flying Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIEUTENANT ALEC CRICHTON MAITLAND-ADDISON,<\/p>\n<p>1st BATTN. THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT<\/p>\n<p>born at Brighton in 1886, was the son of Major A. Maitland-Addison, late 71st Highlanders; he was a great grandson of Charles Bisset, 42nd Highlanders (mentioned in &#8220;Lives of Eminent Scotchmen&#8221;) and closely connected with the family of the poet Joseph Addison.<\/p>\n<p>He was educated privately, and was gazetted to the Cheshire Regiment in September, 1914, as Second Lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the Royal Flying Corps, he landed in France in August, 1914, and served continuously till the time of his death, having been promoted for distinguished service in the Field. He was wounded at Ypres on the 25th October, 1914, and died at Boulogne on the 27th October, 1914. Lieutenant Maitland-Addison was a fine man -6 feet 3 inches in height, and broad in proportion extremely powerful, and without fear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source : The Bond Of Sacrifice Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIEUTENANT ALEC CRICHTON MAITLAND-ADDISON, 1st BATTN. THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT born at Brighton in 1886, was the son of Major A. Maitland-Addison, late 71st Highlanders; he was a great grandson of Charles Bisset, 42nd Highlanders (mentioned in &#8220;Lives of Eminent Scotchmen&#8221;) and closely connected with the family of the poet Joseph Addison. He was educated privately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheshire-regiment","category-royal-flying-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}