{"id":6174,"date":"2025-03-29T08:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2025-03-29T08:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:27:59","slug":"armstrong-w-j-tpr-mm-7079-6th-dragoon-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/armstrong-w-j-tpr-mm-7079-6th-dragoon-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong W J Tpr MM 7079 6th Dragoon Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM JAMES, M.M., Trooper, No. 7079, 6th Dragoon Guards, s. of James Armstrong, of 102, Sandrock Road, Lewisham, S.E., by his wife, Clara, dau. of William Down; b. London, 4 Dec. 1892; educ. Greenwich Central School, London, S.E.; was a Warehouseman; enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 14 Oct. 1915, and died at No. 6 General Hospital, Rouen, 11 April, 1918, from wounds received in action at Hourges between 25 March and 3 April, 1918. Buried in the St. Sever&#8217;s Cemetery, Rouen. He was awarded the Military Medal for signalling under heavy shell fire, and getting messages through after several attempts had been made; unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM JAMES, M.M., Trooper, No. 7079, 6th Dragoon Guards, s. of James Armstrong, of 102, Sandrock Road, Lewisham, S.E., by his wife, Clara, dau. of William Down; b. London, 4 Dec. 1892; educ. Greenwich Central School, London, S.E.; was a Warehouseman; enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-dragoon-guards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174","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=6174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}