{"id":7023,"date":"2025-04-21T08:53:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T07:54:06","slug":"birss-j-s-pte-army-service-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/birss-j-s-pte-army-service-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Birss J S Pte M2\/076036 Army Service Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRSS, JOHN STEPHEN, Private, Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps, s. of John Birss, of 22, Maurice Road, Wallsend-on-Tyne, by his wife, Frances Jane, dau. of Robert Aberdeen; b. Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, co. Northumberland, 1 April, 1880; educ. Walker County Council School there; was a Motor Mechanic; enlisted in the 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers in 1899; served with his regiment in the South African War, 1901-2 (Medal with three clasps); served two years with the Colours, and joined the Reserve; was time expired; volunteered for active service, and enlisted in the Army Service Corps 15 Feb. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France for two and a half years; then proceeded to Italy, and died at Montecchio 14 Oct. 1918, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service. Buried in the Communal Cemetery there. He m. at North Shields, 3 Sept. 1902, Mary Agnes (139, George Street, Blaydon-on-Tyne), dau. of John Campbell, and had four children: John Stephen, b. 10 Jan. 1906; Robert R., b. 3 June, 1907; Norman, b. 4 Nov. 1911, and Dorothy, b. 1 July, 1913.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRSS, JOHN STEPHEN, Private, Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps, s. of John Birss, of 22, Maurice Road, Wallsend-on-Tyne, by his wife, Frances Jane, dau. of Robert Aberdeen; b. Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, co. Northumberland, 1 April, 1880; educ. Walker County Council School there; was a Motor Mechanic; enlisted in the 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers in 1899; served with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-service-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","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=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}