{"id":8628,"date":"2026-11-06T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8628"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:25:54","slug":"agger-f-e-cpl-12880-4th-middlesex-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/agger-f-e-cpl-12880-4th-middlesex-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Agger F E Cpl 12880 4th Middlesex Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Agger F E Cpl 12880 4th Middlesex Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n

AGGER, FRANK EDWARD, Corpl., No. 12880, 4th Battn. The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regt.), eldest s. of Harry Agger, of 4, Market Hill, Cambridge, Hairdresser and Tobacconist (d. 13 Nov. 1903), by his wife, Elizabeth Sarah (d. 16 May, 1896), dau. of Robert Holder; b. Cambridge, 14 April, 1892; educ. Farningham, and in the Higher Education Class, Aldershot (Sept. 1913-Feb. 1914); enlisted 1 Jan. 1910; formed one of the Body Guard at Hyde Park at the Coronation of King George V., 22 June, 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, 23 Aug. 1914. At the time of his death he was in charge of a squad of men guarding a railway bridge, at the small village of Oburg, near Mons; they were compelled to retire, and on reaching their lines, Corpl. Agger, who had been wounded, was found to be missing. Two of his comrades went out and endeavoured to bring him in, but were wounded and taken prisoners, a shell bursting as they were lifting him from the ground. He was a good athlete, played football for Middlesex, and ran in the Marathon race from Windsor to London in 1913, which race the King started himself; unm.<\/p>\n

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AGGER, FRANK EDWARD, Corpl., No. 12880, 4th Battn. The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regt.), eldest s. of Harry Agger, of 4, Market Hill, Cambridge, Hairdresser and Tobacconist (d. 13 Nov. 1903), by his wife, Elizabeth Sarah (d. 16 May, 1896), dau. of Robert Holder; b. Cambridge, 14 April, 1892; educ. Farningham, and in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middlesex-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628","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=8628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8630,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8628\/revisions\/8630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}