{"id":5121,"date":"2023-11-16T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T09:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2023-11-16T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T09:55:25","slug":"tucker-r-rfn-1901-16th-london-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/tucker-r-rfn-1901-16th-london-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker R Rfn 1901 16th London Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5122\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tucker-R-Rfn-1901-16th-London-Regiment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5122\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5122\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tucker-R-Rfn-1901-16th-London-Regiment-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tucker-R-Rfn-1901-16th-London-Regiment-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tucker-R-Rfn-1901-16th-London-Regiment.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tucker R Rfn 1901 16th London Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>TUCKER, REGINALD, Rifleman, No. 1901, 16th (Queen&#8217;s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only 8. of John Tucker, of &#8220;Oakwood,&#8221; Chorley Wood Road, Rickmansworth, Cigar Dealer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Samuel Drake; b. Wimbledon, 13 Sept. 1891; educ. Whitgift School, Croydon. He enlisted on the out- break of war, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, 4 Dec. 1914; unm.<\/p>\n<p>He was buried near Burnt Farm, Bois Grenier, France. Capt. Whitmore, commanding D. Coy. The Westminsters, wrote: &#8220;I regret to say that your son while sitting in the trench was this morning hit in the head by a bullet, which glanced in through a loop hole above him, and died in half an hour. I can only express my personal sorrow at losing a soldier who has always shown himself an extraordinarily plucky fellow, doing his best to keep down the enemy&#8217;s fire even when at its heaviest. We shall always remember him among us as the first man of the Company to fall fighting for England.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUCKER, REGINALD, Rifleman, No. 1901, 16th (Queen&#8217;s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only 8. of John Tucker, of &#8220;Oakwood,&#8221; Chorley Wood Road, Rickmansworth, Cigar Dealer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Samuel Drake; b. Wimbledon, 13 Sept. 1891; educ. Whitgift School, Croydon. He enlisted on the out- break of war, served in France and [&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-5121","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\/5121","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=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}