{"id":4656,"date":"2023-08-15T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T09:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2023-08-15T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T09:02:04","slug":"aitken-r-j-pte-ps-7-19th-royal-fusiliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/08\/15\/aitken-r-j-pte-ps-7-19th-royal-fusiliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Aitken R J Pte PS\/7 19th Royal Fusiliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4657\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Aitken-R-J-Pte-Royal-Fusiliers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4657\" class=\"wp-image-4657 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Aitken-R-J-Pte-Royal-Fusiliers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Aitken-R-J-Pte-Royal-Fusiliers.jpg 540w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Aitken-R-J-Pte-Royal-Fusiliers-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aitken R J Pte PS\/7 19th Royal Fusiliers.\u00a0Photo copied and cropped from The Past on Glass at Sutton Archives. Photographer David Knights-Whittome. Shared under the Creative Commons Non Commercial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Born 1st Sep 1894 Guildford Surrey. Parents Thomas and Emily Aitken.<\/p>\n<p>Pte Robert John Aitken PS\/7 19th Royal Fusiliers<\/p>\n<p>Served In France 14th Nov 1915 to 18th May 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioned to Tank Corps 4th Sep 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Discharged 26th Aug 1918.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded 1914\/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. Silver War Badge.<\/p>\n<p>Address Inveresk, Bulkington Avenue, Worthing, Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>Married Gladys Mary Hewitt 3rd April 1921 at Moreton, Dorset.<\/p>\n<p>Worked as a poultry farmer.<\/p>\n<p>ARP Warden in WW2<\/p>\n<p>Died Oct 1971 Norwich Outer, Norfolk. Age 77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born 1st Sep 1894 Guildford Surrey. Parents Thomas and Emily Aitken. Pte Robert John Aitken PS\/7 19th Royal Fusiliers Served In France 14th Nov 1915 to 18th May 1916. Commissioned to Tank Corps 4th Sep 1916. Discharged 26th Aug 1918. Awarded 1914\/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. Silver War Badge. Address Inveresk, Bulkington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-fusiliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","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=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}