{"id":6645,"date":"2025-04-13T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2025-04-13T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:14:05","slug":"batchelor-w-j-pte-79577-6th-durham-light-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/batchelor-w-j-pte-79577-6th-durham-light-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Batchelor W J Pte 79577 6th Durham Light Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BATCHELOR, WILLIAM JOHN, Private, 1\/6th (Territorial) Battn. The Durham Light Infantry, only s. of James Edward Batchelor, of 16, Calverley Street, Tunbridge Wells, Cabinet Maker, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of (-) Smart; b. Tunbridge Wells, co. Kent, 1 Jan. 1890; educ. King Charles&#8217;s School there was employed at Messrs. Truscotts &amp; Sons, Printers, Tonbridge; joined the Durham Light Infantry 7 July, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 20 April, 1918; was taken prisoner during the fighting in the Champagne sector 27 May following, and died a prisoner of war at Worms, Germany, 24 Oct. of the same year, of dysentery. Buried there. He m. at St. James&#8217;s, Tunbridge Wells, 2 Aug. 1913 Edith Louisa (126, St. Mary&#8217;s Road, Tonbridge), dau. of the late Edward Henry Keys, and had a son, Ronald Edward, b. 5 April, 1916.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BATCHELOR, WILLIAM JOHN, Private, 1\/6th (Territorial) Battn. The Durham Light Infantry, only s. of James Edward Batchelor, of 16, Calverley Street, Tunbridge Wells, Cabinet Maker, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of (-) Smart; b. Tunbridge Wells, co. Kent, 1 Jan. 1890; educ. King Charles&#8217;s School there was employed at Messrs. Truscotts &amp; Sons, Printers, Tonbridge; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-durham-light-infantry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","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=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}