{"id":6509,"date":"2025-04-07T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2025-04-07T07:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:40:06","slug":"barnes-w-a-l-cpl-104325-machine-gun-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/barnes-w-a-l-cpl-104325-machine-gun-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes W A L\/Cpl 104325 Machine Gun Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6510\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Barnes-W-A-LCpl-Machine-Gun-Corps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6510\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6510\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Barnes-W-A-LCpl-Machine-Gun-Corps-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Barnes-W-A-LCpl-Machine-Gun-Corps-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Barnes-W-A-LCpl-Machine-Gun-Corps.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barnes W A L\/Cpl 104325 Machine Gun Corps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BARNES, WILLIAM ALFRED, L.-Corpl., No. 104325, 8th Battn. Machine Gun Corps, yst. s. of the late Herbert George Barnes, by his wife, Harriet (-); enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps 10 March, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 2 Aug. following, and died in hospital 31 March, 1918, of wounds received in action at Leaucourt, Somme. His Commanding Officer wrote: He was such a fine soldier, and a great favourite with all who knew him. I can speak of your husband personally, as I had been with him ever since he joined the company. He was one of the most reliable and efficient of N.C.O.&#8217;s, and it is a tremendous loss to the company.&#8221; He m. at Tottenham, 1 Aug. 1915, Dorothy Grace (8, Elizabeth Road, Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham, N.), dau. of Edwin Tonner, and had a dau. Dorothy Florence, b. 4 Aug. 1916.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARNES, WILLIAM ALFRED, L.-Corpl., No. 104325, 8th Battn. Machine Gun Corps, yst. s. of the late Herbert George Barnes, by his wife, Harriet (-); enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps 10 March, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 2 Aug. following, and died in hospital 31 March, 1918, of wounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-gun-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509","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=6509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}