{"id":4500,"date":"2023-08-09T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T07:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2023-08-09T08:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T07:55:06","slug":"thomas-e-t-rfn-9867-3rd-rifle-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/thomas-e-t-rfn-9867-3rd-rifle-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas E T Rfn 9867 3rd Rifle Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THOMAS, EDWARD THOMAS, Rifleman, No. 9867, 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of John Thomas, Shearer, Raglan Bays Works, Briton Ferry, by his wife, Susanah, dau. of David Hopkins; b. Pontudlais, co. Glamorgan, 2 Feb. 1884; educ. Hammonford; was employed at Port Talbot; enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, 5 May, 1903; served three years with the Colours; and then joined the Reserve; was called up no mobilisation in Aug. 1914; went to France in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 23 Oct. 1914. Buried near Chapelle d&#8217;Armenti\u00e8res. He was a member of the Silver Band, Briton Ferry. He m. at Neath, 6 March, 1909, Catherine (Lowther Street, Briton Ferry, Glamorgan), dau. of David Hopkins, and had four children: Thomas Ivor Gwyn, b. 18 Dec. 1913; Edward Ypres, b. (posthumous), 16 April, 1915; Jane Ellen, b. 9 Jan. 1910; and Mary Catherine, b. 27 April, 1911.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOMAS, EDWARD THOMAS, Rifleman, No. 9867, 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of John Thomas, Shearer, Raglan Bays Works, Briton Ferry, by his wife, Susanah, dau. of David Hopkins; b. Pontudlais, co. Glamorgan, 2 Feb. 1884; educ. Hammonford; was employed at Port Talbot; enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, 5 May, 1903; served three years with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rifle-brigade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}