{"id":7865,"date":"2025-10-14T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7865"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:01:13","slug":"carpenter-b-pte-23944-2nd-suffolk-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/carpenter-b-pte-23944-2nd-suffolk-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpenter B Pte 23944 2nd Suffolk Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARPENTER, BERTIE, Private. No. 23944, 2nd Battn. (12th Foot) The Suffolk Regt., only s. of the late Arthur Albert Carpenter, by his wife, Mary Ann (Holmsey Green, Beck Row, Mildenhall, co. Suffolk), dau. of Alfred Curtis; b. Mildenhall aforesaid, in 1894; educ. Beck Row Council School there; was employed as a Postman; enlisted 24 Jan. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following May, when he joined the 7th Suffolks; was wounded on the Somme 18 July, and invalided home; returned to France in Dec., and served with the 11th Suffolks; was again wounded 26 Aug. 1917, and invalided home: went back to France to the 2nd Suffolks in March, 1918, and was killed in action at Ecoust 30 Aug. following. His Captain wrote that he was a very brave man and a good soldier; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARPENTER, BERTIE, Private. No. 23944, 2nd Battn. (12th Foot) The Suffolk Regt., only s. of the late Arthur Albert Carpenter, by his wife, Mary Ann (Holmsey Green, Beck Row, Mildenhall, co. Suffolk), dau. of Alfred Curtis; b. Mildenhall aforesaid, in 1894; educ. Beck Row Council School there; was employed as a Postman; enlisted 24 Jan. [&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-7865","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\/7865","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=7865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7866,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7865\/revisions\/7866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}