{"id":6470,"date":"2025-04-06T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:30:12","slug":"bannister-c-h-pte-441353-5th-canadian-expeditionary-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/bannister-c-h-pte-441353-5th-canadian-expeditionary-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannister C H Pte 441353 5th Canadian Expeditionary Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6471\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bannister-C-H-Pte-5th-Canadian-Expeditionary-Force.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6471\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6471\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bannister-C-H-Pte-5th-Canadian-Expeditionary-Force-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bannister-C-H-Pte-5th-Canadian-Expeditionary-Force-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bannister-C-H-Pte-5th-Canadian-Expeditionary-Force.jpg 578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bannister C H Pte 5th Canadian Expeditionary Force<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BANNISTER, CHARLES HUBERT, Private, No. 441353, 5th Battn. Canadian Western Cavalry, Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. 8. of William Bannister, of Tumby, Mareham-le-Fen, Boston, co. Lincoln, Farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Jarvis; b. Northaw, Potter&#8217;s Bar, co. Hertford, 8 Sept. 1886; educ. Northaw aforesaid; Mareham-le-Fen, and Horncastle, co. Lincoln; went to Canada in 1909, and settled at Saskatchewan as a Farmer enlisted in June, 1915; came to England with the 32nd Battn. Canadian Contingent; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from early in 1916, and was killed in action east of Heudecourt-les-Cagnicourt, 1 Sept. 1918. Buried in the Upton Wood Canadian Cemetery, near Arras. A comrade wrote: &#8220;Hubert was a gallant boy, he was admired by everyone; always with a happy smile and a cheery word, no matter what the difficulty or danger; always ready to help and refusing to take the credit for anything he did, and was the finest example of a hero and soldier that I have met.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANNISTER, CHARLES HUBERT, Private, No. 441353, 5th Battn. Canadian Western Cavalry, Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. 8. of William Bannister, of Tumby, Mareham-le-Fen, Boston, co. Lincoln, Farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Jarvis; b. Northaw, Potter&#8217;s Bar, co. Hertford, 8 Sept. 1886; educ. Northaw aforesaid; Mareham-le-Fen, and Horncastle, co. Lincoln; went to Canada in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-expeditionary-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","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=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}