{"id":5529,"date":"2023-12-06T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5529"},"modified":"2023-12-06T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:02:58","slug":"vyvyan-w-d-lt-2nd-kings-shropshire-light-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/vyvyan-w-d-lt-2nd-kings-shropshire-light-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Vyvyan W D Lt 2nd Kings Shropshire Light Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vyvyan W D Lt 2nd Kings Shropshire Light Infantry<\/p><\/div>\n

VYVYAN, WALTER DRUMMOND, Lieut., 2nd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, elder s. of Capt. Richard Walter Comyn Vyvyan, of Trewan, St. Columb, Cornwall, late 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt. and Temp. Lieut.-Col. 21st (Reserve) Battn. of the same, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Edward Sladen Foster, of Dowsby, co. Lincoln; b. Bath, co. Somerset, 20 March, 1887; educ. Bedford Grammar School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. King’s Shropshire L.I. 4 May, 1907, and promoted Lieut. 19 March, 1910; went to France, 21. Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Eloi, Belgium, 2 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Dispatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.<\/p>\n

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  VYVYAN, WALTER DRUMMOND, Lieut., 2nd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, elder s. of Capt. Richard Walter Comyn Vyvyan, of Trewan, St. Columb, Cornwall, late 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt. and Temp. Lieut.-Col. 21st (Reserve) Battn. of the same, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Edward Sladen Foster, of Dowsby, co. Lincoln; b. Bath, co. Somerset, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kings-shropshire-light-infantry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529","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=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}