{"id":6439,"date":"2025-04-03T20:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2025-04-03T20:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:37:48","slug":"ball-w-t-pte-5633-1st-leinster-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/ball-w-t-pte-5633-1st-leinster-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball W T Pte 5633 1st Leinster Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6440\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ball-W-T-Pte-Leinster-Regt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6440\" class=\"wp-image-6440 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ball-W-T-Pte-Leinster-Regt-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ball-W-T-Pte-Leinster-Regt-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ball-W-T-Pte-Leinster-Regt.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ball W T Pte 5633 1st Leinster Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BALL, WALTER THOMAS, Private, No. 5633, 1st Battn. (100th Foot) The Prince of Wales&#8217;s Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), s. of the late George Ball; b. London, S.E., 5 July, 1882; educ. Leo Street C.C. School there; enlisted in the Leinster Regt. 26 April, 1916; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Egypt from 2 Feb. 1917, and died at Alexandria 24 Nov. 1918, of malaria and bronchitis, contracted while on active service. Buried in the English Cemetery there. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;Private W. T. Ball was a most excellent soldier, and always carried out his duties well and cheerfully. He is a great miss to the company, and I and many others are very sorry he was not spared to go home after such a long and creditable service.&#8221; He m. at Nunhead Baptist Chapel, 7 Oct. 1916, Florence Mary (33, Edric Road, New Cross, S.E.), dau. of Charles Papsworth, of Brighton; s.p.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALL, WALTER THOMAS, Private, No. 5633, 1st Battn. (100th Foot) The Prince of Wales&#8217;s Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), s. of the late George Ball; b. London, S.E., 5 July, 1882; educ. Leo Street C.C. School there; enlisted in the Leinster Regt. 26 April, 1916; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Egypt from 2 Feb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leinster-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","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=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}