{"id":6229,"date":"2025-03-29T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:46:48","slug":"attwell-w-h-coy-qtr-mst-sergt-153982-13th-royal-fusiliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/attwell-w-h-coy-qtr-mst-sergt-153982-13th-royal-fusiliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Attwell W H Coy Qtr Mst Sergt 153982 13th Royal Fusiliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATTWELL, WILLIAM HENRY, Coy. Quartermaster-Sergt. No. 153982, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), eldest s. of the late William Henry Attwell, by his wife, Matilda Cooper (St. Clement, Thames Ditton), dau. of Joseph (and Matilda) Flaxman; educ. Holborn Estate Grammar School; was a Chartered Accountant; joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1915, being appointed Sergt.-Instructor to various regiments in England, and was subsequently employed in the Quarter-master&#8217;s Department at Eastbourne and High Wycombe Hospitals, and died at St. Albans War Hospital 26 March, 1919, of illness contracted while on service. Buried at Thames Ditton Cemetery. He served on the committee of the Thames Ditton Conservative Association, and was a prominent worker at parliamentary elections there. He was also interested in cricket, and was formerly honorary secretary of the local cricket club; unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTWELL, WILLIAM HENRY, Coy. Quartermaster-Sergt. No. 153982, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), eldest s. of the late William Henry Attwell, by his wife, Matilda Cooper (St. Clement, Thames Ditton), dau. of Joseph (and Matilda) Flaxman; educ. Holborn Estate Grammar School; was a Chartered Accountant; joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1915, being appointed Sergt.-Instructor [&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-6229","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\/6229","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=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6230,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions\/6230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}