{"id":54139,"date":"2009-07-26T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=54139"},"modified":"2024-05-27T16:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:38:40","slug":"loftus-war-memorial-dedication-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=54139","title":{"rendered":"Loftus War Memorial Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/scn_0219-1-465x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54013\" style=\"width:800px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/scn_0219-1-465x300.jpg 465w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/scn_0219-1-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/scn_0219-1-150x97.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/scn_0219-1-400x258.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/scn_0219-1.jpg 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>At 2pm on 11th November, 1922, (one year after the end of registration of deaths due to the War or its effects), the Memorial at Loftus was formally consecrated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The service was conducted by ministers of all religions, each taking a part of the service.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The guard of honour and firing party was provided by 4th Battalion, Queen Alexander\u2019s Own, the Yorkshire Regiment, also known as the Green Howards. The local Battalion of the local Regiment had recruited so many of the men whose names were inscribed on the bronze tablets at the base of the Celtic Cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thanks to Stu Coles for the update<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>At 2pm on 11th November, 1922, (one year after the end of registration of deaths due to the War or its effects), the Memorial at Loftus was formally consecrated.<\/p>\n<p>The service was conducted by ministers of all religions, each taking a part of the service.<\/p>\n<p>The guard of honour and firing party was provided [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occasions","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78730,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139\/revisions\/78730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}