{"id":6443,"date":"2025-04-03T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2025-04-03T20:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:56:21","slug":"ballam-r-c-cpl-22977-9th-royal-irish-fusiliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/ballam-r-c-cpl-22977-9th-royal-irish-fusiliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballam R C Cpl 22977 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6444\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ballam-R-C-Cpl-9th-Royal-Irish-Fusiliers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6444\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6444\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ballam-R-C-Cpl-9th-Royal-Irish-Fusiliers-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ballam-R-C-Cpl-9th-Royal-Irish-Fusiliers-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ballam-R-C-Cpl-9th-Royal-Irish-Fusiliers.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballam R C Cpl 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BALLAM, RICHARD CECIL, Corpl., No. 22977, 9th (Service) Battn. Princess Victoria&#8217;s (Royal Irish Fusiliers), yst. s. of Richard Ballam, of Richardstown, Dunleer, Coachman, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Henry Shore Carlow, of Crettyard, Ireland; b. Salt Hill, co. Galway, 4 April, 1898; educ. Gortbratten Fornham; volunteered for active service, and enlisted in the Royal Irish Fusiliers 4 Nov. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from May, 1917, until severely wounded at the Battle of Ypres 16 Aug. 1917, being employed as a First Class Signaller; returned to France in Sept. 1918, where he served with great gallantry until the armistice was signed, and died at No. 10 Stationary Hospital, Arnike, 5 Dec. following, of influenza. Buried in Turcoing Civilian Cemetery; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALLAM, RICHARD CECIL, Corpl., No. 22977, 9th (Service) Battn. Princess Victoria&#8217;s (Royal Irish Fusiliers), yst. s. of Richard Ballam, of Richardstown, Dunleer, Coachman, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Henry Shore Carlow, of Crettyard, Ireland; b. Salt Hill, co. Galway, 4 April, 1898; educ. Gortbratten Fornham; volunteered for active service, and enlisted in the Royal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-irish-fusiliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443","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=6443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6445,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6443\/revisions\/6445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}