{"id":6615,"date":"2025-04-13T09:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2025-04-13T09:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:56:29","slug":"bartlett-g-l-cpl-mm-402806-royal-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/bartlett-g-l-cpl-mm-402806-royal-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartlett G L\/Cpl MM 402806 Royal Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BARTLETT, GEORGE, M.M., L.-Corpl., No. 402806, 404th Highland Field Coy. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of George Bartlett, of 183, Great Northern Road, Woodside, Aberdeen, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Duncan; b. Glentanar, 21 Sept. 1888; educ. there; went to the United States in March, 1912, and settled at Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts, as a Mason; returned to England in Jan. 1915; enlisted 11 Dec. following; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Oct. 1916; took an active part in the Battle of Arras April, 1917; was wounded at Ypres the following July on recovery in Sept., returned to his unit; saw much fighting during the following April at La Bass\u00e9e, and died at No. 42 Casualty Clearing Station 11 July, 1918, from pneumonia supervening influenza, contracted while on active service. Buried in the Aubigny Cemetery. He was awarded the Military Medal for gallant and distinguished service in the field at Doignies, on the Somme, 21 March, 1918; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARTLETT, GEORGE, M.M., L.-Corpl., No. 402806, 404th Highland Field Coy. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of George Bartlett, of 183, Great Northern Road, Woodside, Aberdeen, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Duncan; b. Glentanar, 21 Sept. 1888; educ. there; went to the United States in March, 1912, and settled at Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","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=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}