{"id":4132,"date":"2023-07-21T09:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2023-07-21T21:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:38:57","slug":"gardom-j-c-lt-essex-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/gardom-j-c-lt-essex-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardom J C Lt Essex Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gardom J C Lt Essex Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n

L IEUTENANT JOHN CHARLES GARDOM, Essex Regi- ment, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Gardom of Tadworth, Surrey.<\/p>\n

He was born in 1884 and educated at Malvern College. After leaving school he joined his father’s firm C. H. Gardom and Co., and became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1909.<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Gardom was a magnificent skater, and won the gold medal of the National Skating Association in 1911.<\/p>\n

On the outbreak of war he joined the Honourable Artillery Company, and went to France with them in September 1914.<\/p>\n

He was given his commission in the 12th Battalion Essex Regiment in the following February; he was sent out to join the 1st Battalion of his regiment at Gallipoli in May, and was killed at Achi Baba on 6th August, 1915.<\/p>\n

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gardom J Lt 12th Attd 1st Essex Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n

Source : Activities of the British Community in Argentina During the Great War 1914-1919<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gardom J C Lt 1st Essex Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n

Source : The War Illustrated Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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L IEUTENANT JOHN CHARLES GARDOM, Essex Regi- ment, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Gardom of Tadworth, Surrey. He was born in 1884 and educated at Malvern College. After leaving school he joined his father’s firm C. H. Gardom and Co., and became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1909. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essex-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","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=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}