{"id":4019,"date":"2023-07-19T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T08:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2023-07-19T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T08:17:12","slug":"driver-g-d-lt-army-service-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/driver-g-d-lt-army-service-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver G D Lt Army Service Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4020\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Driver-G-D-Lt-Army-Service-Corps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4020\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4020\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Driver-G-D-Lt-Army-Service-Corps-618x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Driver-G-D-Lt-Army-Service-Corps-618x1024.jpg 618w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Driver-G-D-Lt-Army-Service-Corps-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Driver-G-D-Lt-Army-Service-Corps-768x1274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Driver-G-D-Lt-Army-Service-Corps-926x1536.jpg 926w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Driver-G-D-Lt-Army-Service-Corps.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driver G D Lt Army Service Corps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LIEUTENANT GRAHAM DUDLEY DRIVER, Royal Army Service Corps, son of Sheldon Dudley Driver, a member of the Stock Exchange, was born in 1872 and educated at Dover College. He himself became a member in 1894.<\/p>\n<p>An enthusiast in all sports he was especially keen on tennis, lawn tennis and squash racquets. He competed in and won many prizes at lawn tennis tournaments, and was a member of Hurlingham and Queen&#8217;s Clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Though over forty when war broke out, he enlisted in September 1914, in the Sportsmen&#8217;s Battalion, the 23rd Royal Fusiliers, and in March of the following year received his commission as a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps.<\/p>\n<p>He died of spotted fever at the age of forty-three, within a few weeks of obtaining his commission, on 5 May 1915.<\/p>\n<p>He married Evelyn, youngest daughter of the late William Blencowe of Brackley, Northants, and left one daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIEUTENANT GRAHAM DUDLEY DRIVER, Royal Army Service Corps, son of Sheldon Dudley Driver, a member of the Stock Exchange, was born in 1872 and educated at Dover College. He himself became a member in 1894. An enthusiast in all sports he was especially keen on tennis, lawn tennis and squash racquets. He competed in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-service-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","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=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}