{"id":5949,"date":"2025-03-26T07:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2025-03-26T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:55:28","slug":"herbert-stepney-h-a-major-irish-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/herbert-stepney-h-a-major-irish-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert-Stepney H A Major Irish Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5950\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5950\" class=\"wp-image-5950 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-610x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-610x1024.jpg 610w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-768x1288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-916x1536.jpg 916w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbert-Stepney H A Major Irish Guards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MAJOR H. A. HERBERT-STEP\u039d\u0395\u03a5<\/p>\n<p>IRISH GUARDS<\/p>\n<p>HERBERT ARTHUR HERBERT-STEPNEY was the eldest son of George Herbert-Stepney, of Alberta House, Templeogue, County Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>He entered the School in 1893, and passed on to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1897. He was gazetted to the Coldstream Guards in 1898, and served in the South African War, 1900-01, when he was slightly wounded. For his services he received the Queen&#8217;s Medal with Three Clasps and the King&#8217;s Medal. He was recalled and transferred to the Irish Guards in 1901, of which he was Adjutant in 1902. He was promoted Major in 1912.<\/p>\n<p>He went to France in August, 1914, with the First Expeditionary Force, and was in command of the Regiment during the Retreat from Mons, in the Battles of the Marne and of the Aisne, and afterwards at Ypres.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke, near Ypres, in Flanders, on November 7th, 1914. Age 35.<\/p>\n<p>He was mentioned in Despatches of January 14th, 1915.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5952\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-The-Illustrated-London-News-26th-Dec-1914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5952\" class=\"wp-image-5952\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-The-Illustrated-London-News-26th-Dec-1914-175x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-The-Illustrated-London-News-26th-Dec-1914-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-The-Illustrated-London-News-26th-Dec-1914-597x1024.jpg 597w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Herbert-Stepney-H-A-Major-Irish-Guards-The-Illustrated-London-News-26th-Dec-1914.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbert-Stepney H A Major Irish Guards<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Source : The Illustrated London News 26th Dec 1914<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAJOR H. A. HERBERT-STEP\u039d\u0395\u03a5 IRISH GUARDS HERBERT ARTHUR HERBERT-STEPNEY was the eldest son of George Herbert-Stepney, of Alberta House, Templeogue, County Dublin. He entered the School in 1893, and passed on to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1897. He was gazetted to the Coldstream Guards in 1898, and served in the South African War, 1900-01, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-guards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","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=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}