{"id":6079,"date":"2025-03-27T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:20:17","slug":"allan-black-h-m-pte-77570-9th-royal-fusiliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/allan-black-h-m-pte-77570-9th-royal-fusiliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan-Black H M Pte 77570 9th Royal Fusiliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6080\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Allan-Black-H-M-Pte-9th-London-Regt-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6080\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6080\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Allan-Black-H-M-Pte-9th-London-Regt-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Allan-Black-H-M-Pte-9th-London-Regt-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Allan-Black-H-M-Pte-9th-London-Regt-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allan-Black H M Pte 77570 9th Royal Fusiliers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ALLAN-BLACK, HUGH MCALISTER, Private, 9th (Service) Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), only 8. of John William Allan-Black, of Hango Allan-Blac Side, Castletown, Isle of Man, by his wife, Clare, dau. of the late Julius Delius, of Clare-mont, Bradford, co. York; and gdson. of the late Rev. Charles Ingham Black, D.D., R.D., V.D.; b. Stone Gappe, near Skipton, co, York, 27 May, 1899; educ. by a tutor and at King William&#8217;s College, Castletown afore-said; was a member of the O.T.C.; left college at the age of 18 to volunteer for service, and joined the Royal Fusiliers in June, 1917; trained at Catterick, co. York, during which time he was mostly in hospital, suffering from a strained heart, and was twice offered his discharge, but refused to accept it, the second time being in March, 1918, when he felt all men were needed: served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from May, 1918, and was killed in action outside the village of of Morlincourt 8 Aug. following. Buried at Vaux-sur-Somme. In letters received it was stated: &#8220;That his courage under fire for the first time was marvellous and an example to old soldiers; although. a boy in years, he had a man&#8217;s heart, and as a comrade and a pal we shall not easily see his like again. He was a very gallant gentleman.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLAN-BLACK, HUGH MCALISTER, Private, 9th (Service) Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), only 8. of John William Allan-Black, of Hango Allan-Blac Side, Castletown, Isle of Man, by his wife, Clare, dau. of the late Julius Delius, of Clare-mont, Bradford, co. York; and gdson. of the late Rev. Charles Ingham Black, D.D., R.D., V.D.; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-fusiliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079","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=6079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6082,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6079\/revisions\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}