{"id":7496,"date":"2025-05-02T09:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:13:34","slug":"brotheridge-g-h-pte-51665-5th-gloucestershire-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/brotheridge-g-h-pte-51665-5th-gloucestershire-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brotheridge G H Pte 51665 5th Gloucestershire Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROTHERIDGE, GEORGE HAWKINS, Private, No. 51665, 1\/5th (Territorial) Battn. The Gloucestershire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Brotheridge. of Colways, Ashleworth, Farmer, by his wife, Clara Ann, dau. of John Jones: and brother to Lieut. F. Brotheridge (q.v.); b. Colways, Ashleworth, co. Gloucester, 5 Dec. 1897; educ. Grammar School, Tewkesbury, and King&#8217;s School, Gloucester: was a Dairy and Farming Student, and subsequently assisted his father on his farm; joined the Gloucestershire Regt. 24 May, 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following Sept., and died at a Dressing Station 24 Oct. of the same year, of wounds received in action a few hours previously. Buried in Pommereuil Cemetery, near Le Catean. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;He was very brave and cheerful, and I always found him willing and cheerful under all circumstances. He was very popular with his comrades,&#8221; and his Sergt.-Major: &#8220;He was a most willing and good soldier, and is deeply regretted by all who knew him.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROTHERIDGE, GEORGE HAWKINS, Private, No. 51665, 1\/5th (Territorial) Battn. The Gloucestershire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Brotheridge. of Colways, Ashleworth, Farmer, by his wife, Clara Ann, dau. of John Jones: and brother to Lieut. F. Brotheridge (q.v.); b. Colways, Ashleworth, co. Gloucester, 5 Dec. 1897; educ. Grammar School, Tewkesbury, and King&#8217;s School, Gloucester: was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gloucestershire-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","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=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7497,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/7497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}