{"id":4521,"date":"2023-08-09T19:35:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2023-08-09T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:35:16","slug":"thomson-a-c-sergt-1380-13th-australian-imperial-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/thomson-a-c-sergt-1380-13th-australian-imperial-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomson A C Sergt 1380 13th Australian Imperial Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4522\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Thomson-A-C-Sergt-1380-13th-Australian-Imperial-Force.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4522\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4522\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Thomson-A-C-Sergt-1380-13th-Australian-Imperial-Force-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Thomson-A-C-Sergt-1380-13th-Australian-Imperial-Force-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Thomson-A-C-Sergt-1380-13th-Australian-Imperial-Force.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomson A C Sergt 1380 13th Australian Imperial Force<\/p><\/div>\n<p>THOMSON, ALEXANDER CAMERON, Sergt., No. 1380, D Coy., 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 6th s. of James Thomson, of 57, St. Andrew Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Alexander Cameron, of Rothes; b. Glasgow, 30 March, 1892; educ. Kinning Park Public School; was two years in the 7th S. R. Glasgow before going to Australia, 25 Nov. 1912; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sydney, N.S.W., 26 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt about 24 Dec.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and after being promoted Corpl. and Sergt. was killed in action there, 3 May, 1915; unm. His Officer Commanding, Lieut. C. B. Hopkins, wrote: &#8220;Your son was killed on the night of 3 May, doing his duty in a most gallant manner, in a charge against some Turkish trenches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOMSON, ALEXANDER CAMERON, Sergt., No. 1380, D Coy., 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 6th s. of James Thomson, of 57, St. Andrew Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Alexander Cameron, of Rothes; b. Glasgow, 30 March, 1892; educ. Kinning Park Public School; was two years in the 7th S. R. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-imperial-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}