{"id":6447,"date":"2025-04-03T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:00:14","slug":"balls-e-l-cpl-10-2077-1st-wellington-rifles-new-zealand-expeditionary-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/balls-e-l-cpl-10-2077-1st-wellington-rifles-new-zealand-expeditionary-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Balls E L\/Cpl 10\/2077 1st Wellington Rifles New Zealand Expeditionary Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALLS, EDMUND, L.-Corpl., No. 10\/2077, 1st Battn. Wellington Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Henry Sykes Balls, by his wife, Rhoda Ann, dau. of William Sandry; b. Stratton, co. Cornwall, 19 Aug. 1880; educ. Newton Abbot Grammar School; went to New Zealand in 1905, and settled at Wellington as a Farmer; volunteered for foreign service, and enlisted in the Wellington Rifles in Feb. 1915; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli; subsequently proceeded to France, and was killed in action at Belle Vue Farm on the Selle, 12 Oct. 1918. Buried in Briastre Cemetery; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALLS, EDMUND, L.-Corpl., No. 10\/2077, 1st Battn. Wellington Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Henry Sykes Balls, by his wife, Rhoda Ann, dau. of William Sandry; b. Stratton, co. Cornwall, 19 Aug. 1880; educ. Newton Abbot Grammar School; went to New Zealand in 1905, and settled at Wellington as a Farmer; volunteered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand-expeditonary-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","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=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}