{"id":4004,"date":"2023-07-19T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2023-07-19T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T07:52:45","slug":"dawson-w-l-2nd-lt-6th-royal-warwickshire-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/dawson-w-l-2nd-lt-6th-royal-warwickshire-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawson W L 2nd Lt 6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4005\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dawson-W-L-2nd-Lt-6th-Royal-Warwickshire-Regiment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4005\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4005\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dawson-W-L-2nd-Lt-6th-Royal-Warwickshire-Regiment-665x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dawson-W-L-2nd-Lt-6th-Royal-Warwickshire-Regiment-665x1024.jpg 665w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dawson-W-L-2nd-Lt-6th-Royal-Warwickshire-Regiment-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dawson-W-L-2nd-Lt-6th-Royal-Warwickshire-Regiment-768x1183.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dawson-W-L-2nd-Lt-6th-Royal-Warwickshire-Regiment-997x1536.jpg 997w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dawson-W-L-2nd-Lt-6th-Royal-Warwickshire-Regiment.jpg 1114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawson W L 2nd Lt 6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SECOND LIEUTENANT WILFRED LEEDHAM DAWSON, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was born in 1882. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1913.<\/p>\n<p>A partner in the firm of Bragg, Stockdale, Hall and Co., he joined the Artists&#8217; Rifles and received his commission in the 7th Worcester Regiment in 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately on being gazetted, he went to France and was then attached to the 2\/6th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, being transferred to that regiment in the following year.<\/p>\n<p>He met his death in the operations following the repulse before Cambrai in November 1917, being killed in action while holding the line near La Vacquerie on 3 December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SECOND LIEUTENANT WILFRED LEEDHAM DAWSON, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was born in 1882. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1913. A partner in the firm of Bragg, Stockdale, Hall and Co., he joined the Artists&#8217; Rifles and received his commission in the 7th Worcester Regiment in 1916. Immediately on being gazetted, he went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-warwickshire-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","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=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}