{"id":8455,"date":"2026-04-23T20:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:49:44","slug":"alexander-h-c-lt-the-hon-5th-lancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/alexander-h-c-lt-the-hon-5th-lancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander H C Lt The Hon 5th Lancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8456\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander-H-C-Lt-The-Hon-5th-Lancers-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8456\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8456\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander-H-C-Lt-The-Hon-5th-Lancers-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander-H-C-Lt-The-Hon-5th-Lancers-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander-H-C-Lt-The-Hon-5th-Lancers-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander-H-C-Lt-The-Hon-5th-Lancers-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander-H-C-Lt-The-Hon-5th-Lancers-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander-H-C-Lt-The-Hon-5th-Lancers-2-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander-H-C-Lt-The-Hon-5th-Lancers-2.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander H C Lt The Hon 5th Lancers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lieutenant the Hon. Herbrand Charles Alexander, 5th Lancers, who has been mentioned in despatches, is the brother and heir-presumtive of the 5th Earl of Caledon. He was born on the 28th November, 1888, and was educated at R.M.C., Sandhurst. He entered the service on the 27th January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : Our Heroes Mons To The Somme August 1914-July 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieutenant the Hon. Herbrand Charles Alexander, 5th Lancers, who has been mentioned in despatches, is the brother and heir-presumtive of the 5th Earl of Caledon. He was born on the 28th November, 1888, and was educated at R.M.C., Sandhurst. He entered the service on the 27th January. Source : Our Heroes Mons To The Somme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5th-lancers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","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=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}