{"id":7984,"date":"2025-10-25T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2025-10-25T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:49:13","slug":"aitken-j-c-captain-2nd-argyll-and-sutherland-highlanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/aitken-j-c-captain-2nd-argyll-and-sutherland-highlanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Aitken J C Captain 2nd Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AITKEN, JOHN CHRISTIE, Capt., 2nd Battn. (92nd) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only s. of Lt. Col. Francis Macnamara Aitken, of Murrayfield, Lockerbie, late 93rd Highlanders, by his wife, B., dau. of (-) Leslie, of Alton, Hants, M.D., and grandson of John Christie Aitken, of Thornton, Australia [cadet of Aitken of Thornton, co. Fife]; b. 10 Oct. 1892; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 4 Oct. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 23 April, 1914, and temp. (afterwards made substantive) Capt., &#8211; Dec. following; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action 25-26 Sept. 1915; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AITKEN, JOHN CHRISTIE, Capt., 2nd Battn. (92nd) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only s. of Lt. Col. Francis Macnamara Aitken, of Murrayfield, Lockerbie, late 93rd Highlanders, by his wife, B., dau. of (-) Leslie, of Alton, Hants, M.D., and grandson of John Christie Aitken, of Thornton, Australia [cadet of Aitken of Thornton, co. Fife]; b. 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argyll-and-sutherland-highlanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","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=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7989,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}