{"id":2334,"date":"2018-06-15T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2018-05-30T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T15:37:59","slug":"percy-walmsley-and-the-anglia-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/news\/percy-walmsley-and-the-anglia-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Percy Walmsley and the Anglia disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is rare, even in wartime, for someone to be present on two ships sunk on the same day &#8211; and even rarer for that to happen to someone who is not in the Navy. But that was the fate of Percy Walmsley, a Private with 1\/6 battalion Duke of Wellington&#8217;s (West Riding) Regiment, on the 17th November 1915, when he was being brought home to England from France.<\/p>\n<p>He survived and, while recovering in hospital, wrote about the experience in letters home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/WW1%20articles\/Article%20-%20Percy%20Walmsley%20and%20the%20Anglia%20disaster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article &#8211; Percy Walmsley and the Anglia disaster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is rare, even in wartime, for someone to be present on two ships sunk on the same day &#8211; and even rarer for that to happen to someone who is not in the Navy. But that was the fate of Percy Walmsley, a Private with 1\/6 battalion Duke of Wellington&#8217;s (West Riding) Regiment, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project","_seopress_titles_desc":"Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.farnhill.co.uk\/volunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}