{"id":6242,"date":"2025-03-29T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:07:04","slug":"audsley-w-t-gnr-royal-field-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/audsley-w-t-gnr-royal-field-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Audsley W T Gnr 114653 Royal Field Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUDSLEY, WILLIAM THOMAS, Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 3rd s. of Edward Audsley, of 72, High Street, Crayford, Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Chapman; b. Crayford, co. Kent, 27 March, 1896; educ. Boys&#8217; National School there; was an Apprentice Block Printer; enlisted in the R.F.A. 25 Oct. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 28 Feb. 1916, and was killed in action at Courcelette, on the Somme, 9 Feb. 1917. Buried in Avelney Communal Cemetery Extension. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;He was a smart, bright boy, and we shall feel his loss very much indeed&#8230; I am writing to you, because I had the pleasure of being his section officer, for some considerable time, and I always admired the willing way he did his work, and the cheerful way he went about,&#8221; and some comrades also wrote: &#8220;During the time he has been with us he has always done his duty like a man, and we shall miss him very much.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUDSLEY, WILLIAM THOMAS, Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 3rd s. of Edward Audsley, of 72, High Street, Crayford, Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Chapman; b. Crayford, co. Kent, 27 March, 1896; educ. Boys&#8217; National School there; was an Apprentice Block Printer; enlisted in the R.F.A. 25 Oct. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-field-artillery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242","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=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}