{"id":55066,"date":"2009-10-15T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55066"},"modified":"2017-02-07T19:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:29:05","slug":"lest-we-forget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55066","title":{"rendered":"Lest We Forget!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_155-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_155-1.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_155-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_155-1-451x300.jpg 451w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_155-1-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_155-1-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now this is how we should remember!\u00a0 The shop window of Leng\u2019s the Hairdresser bedecked with reminders of The Great War. At a guess the young man has reason for remembering \u2013 he is wearing a group of medals on his left breast,\u00a0denoting that he joined up before 1916.\u00a0 It looks like he is also wearing a badge\/medal on his right breast \u2013 where the \u201dunnofficial\u201d medals go \u2013 could this be a SWB (Silver War Badge)? \u201dAt the going down of the sun and in the morning \u2013 we will remember them!\u201d (Last line of \u201dThe Exhortation\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nivard Ovington has told us: &#8220;The correct term is the Silver War Badge. In the SWB register is a Harold C LENG 200812 a private in the 4th Yorkshire Regiment, SWB badge number 264748. Enlisted 23rd November 1914, discharged 9th November 1917 under Army order 265 (II) (i) (b) aged 22 (served overseas).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to Nivard for that correction and update.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Now this is how we should remember! The shop window of Leng\u2019s the Hairdresser bedecked with reminders of The Great War. At a guess the young man has reason for remembering \u2013 he is wearing a group of medals on his left breast, denoting that he joined up before 1916. It looks like he [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-central","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55066","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=55066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55070,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55066\/revisions\/55070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}