{"id":6197,"date":"2025-03-29T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:00:59","slug":"arthur-a-pte-32699-machine-gun-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/arthur-a-pte-32699-machine-gun-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur A Pte 32699 Machine Gun Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARTHUR, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 32699, Machine Gun Corps, 3rd s. of the late David Arthur, by his wife, Ann Ferguson (118, Bonnygate, Cupar); b. Kingask, Cupar, co. Fife, 28 April, 1886; educ. Cupar; was a Draper; enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots 6 Aug. 1915; transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in 1916; served with the Salonika Army from the end of May, 1916, and died at No. 64 General Hospital, Salonika, 6 Aug. 1918, of acute atrophy of the liver, contracted while on active service. Buried in Salonika Cemetery. His Commanding Officer, Lieut. P. Campbell, wrote: &#8220;I feel his loss keenly; he was always so cheerful, was a good soldier, and a great favourite in the section.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTHUR, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 32699, Machine Gun Corps, 3rd s. of the late David Arthur, by his wife, Ann Ferguson (118, Bonnygate, Cupar); b. Kingask, Cupar, co. Fife, 28 April, 1886; educ. Cupar; was a Draper; enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots 6 Aug. 1915; transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in 1916; served with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-gun-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197","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=6197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6198,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions\/6198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}