{"id":4290,"date":"2023-07-24T08:56:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T07:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2023-07-24T08:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T07:56:23","slug":"swan-t-g-pte-3317-3rd-royal-scots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/24\/swan-t-g-pte-3317-3rd-royal-scots\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan T G Pte 3317 3rd Royal Scots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SWAN, THOMAS GEORGE, Private, No. 3317, 1\/3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Thomas Swan, Crimean Veteran; b. Athlone, 18 April, 1877; educ. Bells School, Leith; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 11 Dec. 1895; served through the South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen&#8217;s medal with clasps); obtained his discharge, 10 Dec. 1902, and joined the Reserve, completing his 16 years of service in 1911. On the outbreak of war he re-enlisted in his old regt., 19 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 21 April, 1915. He m. at St. Thomas&#8217; Church, Leith, 27 Dec. 1907, Annie (3\/2, Corporation Buildings, Leith), dau. of (-) Ferguson, and had five children: Thomas George, b. 6 March, 1911; Robert b. 27 June, 1914; Mary, b. 6 Oct. 1906; Susan Jane, b. 31 Oct. 1908; and Janet, b. 23 June, 1912.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWAN, THOMAS GEORGE, Private, No. 3317, 1\/3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Thomas Swan, Crimean Veteran; b. Athlone, 18 April, 1877; educ. Bells School, Leith; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 11 Dec. 1895; served through the South African War, 1899-1902 (Queen&#8217;s medal with clasps); obtained his discharge, 10 Dec. 1902, and joined the Reserve, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","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=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}