{"id":7672,"date":"2025-05-08T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:44:00","slug":"bunn-e-w-2nd-lt-5th-suffolk-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/bunn-e-w-2nd-lt-5th-suffolk-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunn E W 2nd Lt 5th Suffolk Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUNN, ERNEST WALTON, 2nd Lieut., 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Suffolk Regt., 3rd and yst. s. of Arthur Edwin Bunn, of 6, Hospital Road, Bury St. Edmunds, by his wife, Laura Lavania, dan. of William Blomfield Meggs; b. Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk, 14 April, 1898; edue. Guildhall Feoffment School there; joined the 5th Suffolk Regt. 9 Sept. 1914. but on account of his youth was not accepted for overseas service: gazetted 2nd Lieut. 10 Jan. 1918: and died at No. 2 Eastern General Hospital. Brighton. 11 June following, of wounds accidentally received during bombing practice at Crowborough. Buried at Bury St. Edmunds. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;I had the greatest confidence in him, for he was a fine character. Had he the chance, he would have proved a gallant officer in the field.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUNN, ERNEST WALTON, 2nd Lieut., 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Suffolk Regt., 3rd and yst. s. of Arthur Edwin Bunn, of 6, Hospital Road, Bury St. Edmunds, by his wife, Laura Lavania, dan. of William Blomfield Meggs; b. Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk, 14 April, 1898; edue. Guildhall Feoffment School there; joined the 5th Suffolk Regt. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suffolk-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672","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=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7673,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions\/7673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}