{"id":7203,"date":"2025-04-24T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:33:01","slug":"bourne-r-s-sergt-wr-251147-royal-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/bourne-r-s-sergt-wr-251147-royal-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bourne R S Sergt WR\/251147 Royal Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOURNE, ROBERT STANLEY, Sergt.. No. W. R. 251147. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of William Bourne, of 256, High Street, Cheltenham: b Cheltenham, 24 Dec. 1881: educ. Christ Church Higher Grade School, Cheltenham; was a Plumber: volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and joined the Territorials 13 Oct. 1914; was transferred to the Royal Engineers 25 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from April, 1915; was brought over to England 10 Sept. 1918. and died at Stoke-upon-Trent Military Hospital on the 28th, of shell-shock, contracted while on active service. Buried in Cheltenham Cemetery. He m. at All Saints&#8217;, Gloucester. 3 July, 1907, Emily (10. Blenheim Road, Gloucester), dau. of George Cresswell, and had one son, Samuel Stanley. b. 28 July, 1912.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOURNE, ROBERT STANLEY, Sergt.. No. W. R. 251147. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of William Bourne, of 256, High Street, Cheltenham: b Cheltenham, 24 Dec. 1881: educ. Christ Church Higher Grade School, Cheltenham; was a Plumber: volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and joined the Territorials 13 Oct. 1914; was transferred to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203","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=7203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7204,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7203\/revisions\/7204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}