{"id":7015,"date":"2025-04-19T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7015"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:02:58","slug":"bird-h-p-gnr-171701-royal-field-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/bird-h-p-gnr-171701-royal-field-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird H P Gnr 171701 Royal Field Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7016\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bird-H-P-Gnr-Royal-Field-Artillery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7016\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7016\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bird-H-P-Gnr-Royal-Field-Artillery-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bird-H-P-Gnr-Royal-Field-Artillery-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bird-H-P-Gnr-Royal-Field-Artillery.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bird H P Gnr 171701 Royal Field Artillery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BIRD, HORATIO PARKYNS, Gunner, No. 171701, 84th Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of John Gomm Bird, of Wavertree, Liverpool, by his wife, Sarah Frances, dau. of John Whitley, of Frodsham, co. Chester; b. Liverpool, 3 Aug. 1897; educ. at the Liverpool Institute, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; was an Apprentice with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Principal Examiner&#8217;s Department); enlisted 23 Sept. 1916; trained at Bettisfield, co. Salop, and afterwards served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 26 Feb., 1917; took part in the engagements at Arras, Messines, Ypres and nd St. Julien, where he was killed in action 1 Oct. following. Buried in Admiral Road Cemetery, Ypres. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;He was one of the best in the battery, and his absence is regretted by all in the battery, and a comrade: &#8220;Your son was a brave and fearless soldier.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRD, HORATIO PARKYNS, Gunner, No. 171701, 84th Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of John Gomm Bird, of Wavertree, Liverpool, by his wife, Sarah Frances, dau. of John Whitley, of Frodsham, co. Chester; b. Liverpool, 3 Aug. 1897; educ. at the Liverpool Institute, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; was an Apprentice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-field-artillery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015","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=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}