{"id":7459,"date":"2025-05-02T07:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:14:59","slug":"brockbank-r-pte-63526-machine-gun-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/brockbank-r-pte-63526-machine-gun-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Brockbank R Pte 63526 Machine Gun Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROCKBANK, ROBERT, Private, No. 63526, Machine Gun Corps, s. of the late Henry Moore Brockbank, by his wife, Mary (-) (Bankrigg Cottage, Bay Horse, near Lancaster); b. Forten, near Lancaster, 14 April, 1887; educ. Ripley Hospital, Lancaster; enlisted 10 Aug. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 15 Dec. following, and was killed in action at Ypres 28 Sept. 1917, while in a Tank. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;He was very plucky, and I have never known him to turn a hair even when in very tight corners.&#8221; He m. at Blackpool, 9 Sept. 1911, Elizabeth Alice, dau. of Thomas Webster, and had a son, Robert Reginald, b. 7 Feb. 1917.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROCKBANK, ROBERT, Private, No. 63526, Machine Gun Corps, s. of the late Henry Moore Brockbank, by his wife, Mary (-) (Bankrigg Cottage, Bay Horse, near Lancaster); b. Forten, near Lancaster, 14 April, 1887; educ. Ripley Hospital, Lancaster; enlisted 10 Aug. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 15 Dec. following, 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":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-gun-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459","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=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7460,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}