{"id":5674,"date":"2025-03-21T20:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2025-03-21T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:10:03","slug":"5674","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/5674\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott W D The Rev Army Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABBOTT, THE REV. WILLIAM DAVID, Chaplain to the Forces, s. of the late Rev. David Wyley Abbott, Vicar of Cardington, co. Salop, by his wife, Mary Ann (-); b. Hermaston, co. Lincoln. 22 July, 1885; educ. Christ College, Brecon; was ordained Clerk in Holy Orders in 1909, and subsequently appointed Organizing Secretary for the S.P.C.K.; was gazetted Chaplain to the Forces 7 June, 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 6 Aug. 1918, and died at No. 5 Stationary Hospital. Dieppe. 3 Dec. following, of pneumonia contracted while on service. Buried in Jaunal Cemetery, Dieppe. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;I have had an exceptional opportunity of learning what he was, what an inspiration he was to all around him; what a tower of strength he was on the side of everything manly and clean. He was one of the bravest men in moral courage I ever met&#8230;. He was loved by all ranks, and his influence was unbounded: he was so human and so straight. His loss to us here is a calamity&#8230;. The good he did and his inspiring personality will leave their mark till we all get home.&#8221; He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Boston, 7 Oct. 1909, Ruby (75. Mauldeth Road, Withington), only dau. of the late George Williamson, and had two sons: Kenneth David George, b. 17 Oct. 1910. and John Williamson, b. 21 June. 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABBOTT, THE REV. WILLIAM DAVID, Chaplain to the Forces, s. of the late Rev. David Wyley Abbott, Vicar of Cardington, co. Salop, by his wife, Mary Ann (-); b. Hermaston, co. Lincoln. 22 July, 1885; educ. Christ College, Brecon; was ordained Clerk in Holy Orders in 1909, and subsequently appointed Organizing Secretary for the S.P.C.K.; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-chaplains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674","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=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5676,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions\/5676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}