{"id":8763,"date":"2026-11-14T18:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2026-11-14T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:44:12","slug":"pilcher-t-p-lt-2nd-rifle-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/pilcher-t-p-lt-2nd-rifle-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilcher T P Lt 2nd Rifle Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8764\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pilcher-T-P-Lt-2nd-Rifle-Brigade-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8764\" class=\"wp-image-8764 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pilcher-T-P-Lt-2nd-Rifle-Brigade-Copy-751x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pilcher-T-P-Lt-2nd-Rifle-Brigade-Copy-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pilcher-T-P-Lt-2nd-Rifle-Brigade-Copy-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pilcher-T-P-Lt-2nd-Rifle-Brigade-Copy-768x1047.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pilcher-T-P-Lt-2nd-Rifle-Brigade-Copy-1127x1536.jpg 1127w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pilcher-T-P-Lt-2nd-Rifle-Brigade-Copy-1503x2048.jpg 1503w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Pilcher-T-P-Lt-2nd-Rifle-Brigade-Copy.jpg 1761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pilcher T P Lt 2nd Rifle Brigade<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PILCHER, THOMAS PERCY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of Major-Gen. Thomas David Pilcher, C.B., now (1916) commanding the 17th Division, by his 1st wife, Kathleen Mary, dau. of Col. Thomas Goune, 17th Lancers; b. Farnborough, co. Hants 25 Oct. 1893; educ. Wellington College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., The Rifle Brigade, 4 Sept. 1912, being then the youngest officer in the Army, and was promoted Lieut. 16 Nov. 1914; joined his regt. in Rawal Pindi, India, in Nov. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from Oct. 1914 until he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915, while leading his platoon; unm. Buried in the Cemetery there. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French&#8217;s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for good reconnaissance work, and gallant leading of his platoon. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. Stephens, his Brigader, Brig. Gen. Lowry-Cole (since killed in action) and his Divisional Commander, Major-Gen. F. J. Davies, C.B., all bore tribute to his ability, courage, high sense of duty and his popularity with both his brother officers and his men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PILCHER, THOMAS PERCY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of Major-Gen. Thomas David Pilcher, C.B., now (1916) commanding the 17th Division, by his 1st wife, Kathleen Mary, dau. of Col. Thomas Goune, 17th Lancers; b. Farnborough, co. Hants 25 Oct. 1893; educ. Wellington College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rifle-brigade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","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=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}