{"id":5555,"date":"2023-12-06T10:41:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T10:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2023-12-06T13:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:54:52","slug":"wakelin-j-b-l-cpl-1734-7th-london-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/wakelin-j-b-l-cpl-1734-7th-london-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakelin J B L\/Cpl 1734 7th London Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5583\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Wakelin-J-B-LCpl-1734-7th-London-Regiment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5583\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5583\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Wakelin-J-B-LCpl-1734-7th-London-Regiment-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Wakelin-J-B-LCpl-1734-7th-London-Regiment-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Wakelin-J-B-LCpl-1734-7th-London-Regiment.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wakelin J B L\/Cpl 1734 7th London Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WAKELIN, JOHN BINHAM, L.-Corpl., No. 1734, 1\/7th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Wakelin, an employee at Queen&#8217;s College, Oxford, by his wife, Elizabeth Georgina, dau. of Alfred Barnes Cook; b. Oxford, 17 Dec. 1881; educ. Wesleyan School there; was employed at the Whitechapel Infirmary; joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. Oxfordshire L.I. 22 Jan. 1900, serving with them till Dec. 1904, and the Queen&#8217;s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 5 Jan. 1905, serving till 4 Jan. 1908. On the outbreak of war he resigned his post at Whitechapel and joined the 7th London Regt.; went to France, 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 7 May, following; unm. Buried at Bethune.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAKELIN, JOHN BINHAM, L.-Corpl., No. 1734, 1\/7th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Wakelin, an employee at Queen&#8217;s College, Oxford, by his wife, Elizabeth Georgina, dau. of Alfred Barnes Cook; b. Oxford, 17 Dec. 1881; educ. Wesleyan School there; was employed at the Whitechapel Infirmary; joined the 2nd Volunteer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7th-london-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","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=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5584,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}