{"id":7884,"date":"2025-10-14T09:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:39:33","slug":"kelly-g-h-captain-north-staffs-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/kelly-g-h-captain-north-staffs-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly G H Captain North Staffs Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7885\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hume-Kelly-G-Captain-North-Staffs-Regiment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7885\" class=\"wp-image-7885\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hume-Kelly-G-Captain-North-Staffs-Regiment-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hume-Kelly-G-Captain-North-Staffs-Regiment-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hume-Kelly-G-Captain-North-Staffs-Regiment-846x1024.jpg 846w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hume-Kelly-G-Captain-North-Staffs-Regiment-768x930.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hume-Kelly-G-Captain-North-Staffs-Regiment.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly G H Captain North Staffs Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Captain George Hume-Kelly, North Staffordshire Regiment, was born on the 13th November, 1879, and was gazetted Second Lieutenant from the Militia in May, 1899. He became Lieutenant in June, 1900, and obtained his Captaincy in February, 1906. He was adjutant in the Special Reserve from August, He 1908, to February, 1912. In the South African War Captain Hume-Kelly was employed with the Mounted Infantry being present at Paardeberg and Dreitfontein. received the Queen&#8217;s Medal with four clasps and the King&#8217;s Medal with two clasps. He was the youngest son of Major and Mrs. Hume-Kelly, Glencara, Mullingar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : Our Heroes Mons To The Somme August 1914-July 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Captain George Hume-Kelly, North Staffordshire Regiment, was born on the 13th November, 1879, and was gazetted Second Lieutenant from the Militia in May, 1899. He became Lieutenant in June, 1900, and obtained his Captaincy in February, 1906. He was adjutant in the Special Reserve from August, He 1908, to February, 1912. In the South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-staffs-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","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=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7886,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions\/7886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}