{"id":6207,"date":"2025-03-29T09:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:15:45","slug":"ashdown-j-pte-70211-17th-notts-derby-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/ashdown-j-pte-70211-17th-notts-derby-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashdown J Pte 70211 17th Notts &#038; Derby Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6208\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ashdown-J-Pte-17th-Notts-Derby-Regt-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6208\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6208\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ashdown-J-Pte-17th-Notts-Derby-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\/Ashdown-J-Pte-17th-Notts-Derby-Regt-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ashdown-J-Pte-17th-Notts-Derby-Regt-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashdown J Pte 70211 17th Notts &amp; Derby Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ASHDOWN, JOHN, Private, No. 70211, 17th (Service) Battn. The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.), only s. of the late John Henry Ashdown, of Stoke Newington, N., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Charles Abbitt; b. Blackheath, S.E., 15 Nov. 1880; educ. St. Matthias School, Stoke Newington, N.; was employed as a Packer; enlisted 22 March, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action 20 Oct. 1916. Buried near Thi\u00e9pval. Lieut. E. L. Else wrote: &#8220;He was killed by a shell during one of the tours of the company in the front-line trench, and as far as I am able to find out was buried in a cemetery behind the lines near Thi\u00e9pval.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHDOWN, JOHN, Private, No. 70211, 17th (Service) Battn. The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.), only s. of the late John Henry Ashdown, of Stoke Newington, N., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Charles Abbitt; b. Blackheath, S.E., 15 Nov. 1880; educ. St. Matthias School, Stoke Newington, N.; was employed as a Packer; enlisted 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notts-and-derby-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207","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=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}