{"id":5826,"date":"2025-03-24T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2025-03-24T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:49:18","slug":"francis-b-h-2nd-lt-3rd-royal-scots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/francis-b-h-2nd-lt-3rd-royal-scots\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis B H 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Scots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Francis B H 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Scots<\/p><\/div>\n

SECOND LIEUTENANT B. H. FRANCIS<\/p>\n

BATTALION THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT)<\/p>\n

BASIL HUGH FRANCIS was the only surviving son of Captain Harold Hugh Francis, The Royal Scots, of Manor House, Long Stratton, Norfolk.<\/p>\n

He entered the School in 1909, was admitted to University College, Oxford, in March, 1914, and received his Commission in the 3rd Battalion The Royal Scuts in August of the same year.<\/p>\n

He was shot, in the trenches, near La Bass\u00e9e, on February 4th, 1915, and was buried in the grounds of the Ch\u00e2teau of Gorre, near B\u00e9thune. Age 19.<\/p>\n

His Colonel and other Officers wrote in the warmest terms of the impression he had made during his short time with the Regiment, and the following extract from a letter, written by one of his Company, without the least idea that it would ever be seen by his relatives or friends, shows the feelings of his men:”We lost,” it says, “our Company Lieutenant last week by a German sniper. He was called Francis, and he was an awful nice man. He was a true Tommy Atkins’ friend. He was too good to live, and too brave to lose. All my platoon are sorry to lose such a good Officer.”<\/p>\n

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SECOND LIEUTENANT B. H. FRANCIS BATTALION THE ROYAL SCOTS (LOTHIAN REGIMENT) BASIL HUGH FRANCIS was the only surviving son of Captain Harold Hugh Francis, The Royal Scots, of Manor House, Long Stratton, Norfolk. He entered the School in 1909, was admitted to University College, Oxford, in March, 1914, and received his Commission in the 3rd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-scots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","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=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}