{"id":6935,"date":"2025-04-18T08:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:05:57","slug":"binnie-j-pte-11352-1st-scots-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/binnie-j-pte-11352-1st-scots-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Binnie J Pte 11352 1st Scots Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BINNIE, JAMES, Private, No. 11352, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Binnie, of Crofts, Carmyllie, Arbroath, Farm Manager, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Alexander Thomson, of Lunan; b. Carmyllie, co. Forfar, 18 Dec. 1893; educ. Public School there; was a Farm Servant; volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Scots Guards 22 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 27 April, 1915, being employed in the Trench Mortar Battery, and was killed in action near the Canal du Nord 27 Sept. 1918, by the explosion of an enemy ammunition dump. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;He is sorely missed by the battalion, as he was well liked by officers and men, being always cheerful and hard working.&#8217; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BINNIE, JAMES, Private, No. 11352, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Binnie, of Crofts, Carmyllie, Arbroath, Farm Manager, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Alexander Thomson, of Lunan; b. Carmyllie, co. Forfar, 18 Dec. 1893; educ. Public School there; was a Farm Servant; volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","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=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}