{"id":8490,"date":"2026-05-06T20:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8490"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:56:18","slug":"severs-a-2nd-lt-royal-flying-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/severs-a-2nd-lt-royal-flying-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Severs A 2nd Lt Royal Flying Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Severs A 2nd Lt Royal Flying Corps<\/p><\/div>\n

COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON ROLL OF HONOUR
\nNAME AND RANK. Severs, Alfred,
\nREGIMENT. Royal Flying Corps. (or other Service)
\nDATE OF BIRTH. 5th July 1893
\nDIED 28th March 1917
\nPARTICULARS:-
\nKilled in action.<\/p>\n

Severs, Alfred George, 2\/Lt., R.F.C.<\/p>\n

b., 5 Jul., ’93 ; s., Mr. & Mrs. Severs, 11 Vincent Rd., Croydon.
\nEduc, M. Whitgift Sch., Croydon. Civil servant (National
\nInsur. Dept.). Joined Civil Serv. Cadets, ’12. Joined Inns of
\nCourt O.T.C., ’15 ; gazetted to 15 Middlesex Regt. ; transf. to
\nR.F.C, being sent to France when qualified as an observer,
\nDec, ’16. Fell, France, 28 Mar., ’17.<\/p>\n

Source : Croydon In The Great War 1914-1919<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON ROLL OF HONOUR NAME AND RANK. Severs, Alfred, REGIMENT. Royal Flying Corps. (or other Service) DATE OF BIRTH. 5th July 1893 DIED 28th March 1917 PARTICULARS:- Killed in action. Severs, Alfred George, 2\/Lt., R.F.C. b., 5 Jul., ’93 ; s., Mr. & Mrs. Severs, 11 Vincent Rd., Croydon. Educ, M. Whitgift […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-flying-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490","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=8490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8493,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8490\/revisions\/8493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}