{"id":8049,"date":"2025-11-21T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:34:56","slug":"blight-g-f-rfn-302721-london-regiment-london-rifle-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/blight-g-f-rfn-302721-london-regiment-london-rifle-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Blight G F Rfn 302721 London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLIGHT, GILBERT FOSTER, Rifleman, No. 4602, 2\/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Howard Blight, Forest View, Fern-down, Wimborne, co. Dorset, by his wife, Fanny Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph James Tyson; b. London, 18 Aug. 1888; educ. Owen&#8217;s School, Islington; was a Cashier employed in the London and South Western Bank, passing the Bankers Institute Exam., both Preliminary and Final; joined the London Rifle Brigade 5 April, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 25 Jan. 1917, and was killed in action at Arras 14 March following. Buried near Ransart. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;In him the company has lost a brave soldier, a hard worker, and I know he was to many men a faithful friend. He was so reliable,&#8221; and his Chaplain : &#8220;His loss is very much felt by all his comrades, for everyone in his platoon was fond of him.&#8221; A comrade also wrote: Everyone who met him liked him, and enjoyed his bright, cheerful company.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 4<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLIGHT, GILBERT FOSTER, Rifleman, No. 4602, 2\/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Howard Blight, Forest View, Fern-down, Wimborne, co. Dorset, by his wife, Fanny Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph James Tyson; b. London, 18 Aug. 1888; educ. Owen&#8217;s School, Islington; was a Cashier employed in the London and South Western Bank, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5th-london-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","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=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}