{"id":7030,"date":"2025-04-21T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:03:24","slug":"biscoe-a-f-lt-army-service-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/biscoe-a-f-lt-army-service-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Biscoe A F Lt Army Service Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7031\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Biscoe-A-F-Lt-Army-Service-Corps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7031\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7031\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Biscoe-A-F-Lt-Army-Service-Corps-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Biscoe-A-F-Lt-Army-Service-Corps-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Biscoe-A-F-Lt-Army-Service-Corps.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biscoe A F Lt Army Service Corps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BISCOE, ARCHIBALD FAIRHEAD, Lieut., Motor Transport, Royal Army Service Corps, attd. 62nd Siege Battery, Royal Artillery, eldest s. of Henry Biscoe, of 48, Belvedere Road, Upper Norwood, by his wife, Kate, dau. of John (and Catherine) Mearns; b. Chatham, co. Kent, 15 Feb. 1881; educ. City of London School, and College of St. Armand, Ghent; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Army Service Corps in May, 1916 : promoted Lieut. May 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from May, 1916; was attached to the 62nd\u00a0Siege Battery, Royal Artillery, in June, 1917, and subsequently to the 406th Coy. Workshops, and died at No. 26 Casualty Clearing Station 22 Feb. 1919, of broncho-pneumonia, contracted while on active service. Buried in Cologne Cemetery. His Commanding Officer wrote: He was the most capable officer I have ever had.&#8221; He m. at Harrow, 20 Dec. 1916, Vyrnwy (Dee Bank, Corwen), dau. of the Rev. Owen Hughes, and had a son: Henry Edward Vaughan, b. 4 Sept. 1917.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISCOE, ARCHIBALD FAIRHEAD, Lieut., Motor Transport, Royal Army Service Corps, attd. 62nd Siege Battery, Royal Artillery, eldest s. of Henry Biscoe, of 48, Belvedere Road, Upper Norwood, by his wife, Kate, dau. of John (and Catherine) Mearns; b. Chatham, co. Kent, 15 Feb. 1881; educ. City of London School, and College of St. Armand, Ghent; [&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-7030","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\/7030","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=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7032,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions\/7032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}