{"id":7828,"date":"2025-10-13T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:13:16","slug":"cardell-e-p-major-mc-royal-field-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/cardell-e-p-major-mc-royal-field-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardell E P Major MC Royal Field Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARDELL, EDMUND POWNE, M.C., Major, 14th Light Division, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Edmund Harvey Cardell, of Great Paxton, St. Neot&#8217;s, co. Huntingdon, Farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of F. P. Nickell; b. Launceston, co. Cornwall, 4 May, 1892; educ. East Anglian School, Bury St. Edmund&#8217;s, and Nottingham University; he took the degree of B.Sc. of the London University (Engineering), and was on the staff of the British Reinforced Concrete Company; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. in Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from May, 1915, and was killed in action near Passchendaele 21 March, 1918. His Colonel wrote: He was as brave as a lion, and his character was most exemplary. There was not an officer or man in the battery who did not love him.&#8221; He was three times mentioned in Despatches [London Gazettes, 15 June, 1916, 4 Jan. and 14 Dec. 1917] by F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallant and distin-guished service in the field; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARDELL, EDMUND POWNE, M.C., Major, 14th Light Division, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Edmund Harvey Cardell, of Great Paxton, St. Neot&#8217;s, co. Huntingdon, Farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of F. P. Nickell; b. Launceston, co. Cornwall, 4 May, 1892; educ. East Anglian School, Bury St. Edmund&#8217;s, and Nottingham University; he took the degree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-field-artillery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","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=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7829,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions\/7829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}