{"id":4528,"date":"2023-08-09T19:46:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2023-08-09T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:46:30","slug":"thomson-l-rfn-1877-16th-london-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/08\/09\/thomson-l-rfn-1877-16th-london-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomson L Rfn 1877 16th London Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4529\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Thomson-L-Rfn-1877-16th-London-Regiment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4529\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Thomson-L-Rfn-1877-16th-London-Regiment-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Thomson-L-Rfn-1877-16th-London-Regiment-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Thomson-L-Rfn-1877-16th-London-Regiment.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomson L Rfn 1877 16th London Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>THOMSON, LESLIE, Rifleman, No. 1877, F Coy.1\/16th Battn. (Queen&#8217;s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Thomson, of 18, Lorne Street, Reading, by his wife, Emma; b. Reading, co. Berks, 9 Feb. 1893; educ. Christ&#8217;s Hospital, West Horsham; volunteered and joined the Queen&#8217;s Westminsters, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action by a rifle grenade which burst just behind him in the trenches at Houplines, near Armenti\u00e8res, 18 March, 1915; unm.<\/p>\n<p>Buried in the hospital cemetery, Rue Carnot, Houplines. Major Tyrwhitt wrote to his parents :\u00a0 &#8220;Your son was always such a bright cheerful boy and such a good soldier,&#8221; and a letter signed by 42 men, including officers of his company (Sec. 11), also bore testimony to the respect in which he was held by all.<\/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, LESLIE, Rifleman, No. 1877, F Coy.1\/16th Battn. (Queen&#8217;s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Thomson, of 18, Lorne Street, Reading, by his wife, Emma; b. Reading, co. Berks, 9 Feb. 1893; educ. Christ&#8217;s Hospital, West Horsham; volunteered and joined the Queen&#8217;s Westminsters, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 1 Nov. 1914, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16th-london-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","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=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}