{"id":6256,"date":"2025-03-29T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:19:14","slug":"ayres-c-2nd-lt-12th-rifle-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/ayres-c-2nd-lt-12th-rifle-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayres C 2nd Lt 12th Rifle Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AYRES, CLEMENT, 2nd Lieut., 12th (Ser-vice) Battn. The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort&#8217;s Own), eldest s. of Joseph Ayres, Fishmonger, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Jason Forbes b. Lee, co. Kent, 19 June, 1892; educ. Lewisham Bridge School; was a Chauffeur; joined the Royal Berkshire Regt. 20 Oct. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from April, 1916, attaining the rank of Sergt.; returned to England 27 Dec. following, and after a period of training was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Rifle Brigade 29 May, 1917; went back to France 18 July, and was killed in action on the Menin Road 20 Sept. 1917. One of his officers wrote: &#8220;He had not been very long with the battalion, but had become very popular with officers and men, and had proved himself a most excellent officer.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AYRES, CLEMENT, 2nd Lieut., 12th (Ser-vice) Battn. The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort&#8217;s Own), eldest s. of Joseph Ayres, Fishmonger, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Jason Forbes b. Lee, co. Kent, 19 June, 1892; educ. Lewisham Bridge School; was a Chauffeur; joined the Royal Berkshire Regt. 20 Oct. 1914; 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":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rifle-brigade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256","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=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6257,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions\/6257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}