{"id":58499,"date":"2010-11-04T20:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=58499"},"modified":"2018-10-14T17:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T16:05:42","slug":"d-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=58499","title":{"rendered":"\u2018D\u2019 Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58498\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Our-Green-Howards-1040s-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1727\" height=\"1191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Our-Green-Howards-1040s-1.jpg 1727w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Our-Green-Howards-1040s-1-300x207.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Our-Green-Howards-1040s-1-435x300.jpg 435w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Our-Green-Howards-1040s-1-150x103.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Our-Green-Howards-1040s-1-400x276.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1727px) 100vw, 1727px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The men of \u201cD\u201d Company, LDV (Local Defence Volunteers or Look, Duck and Vanish); the Home Guard as they would have been known in the Second World War.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Back row: Albert Downs, Fred Butterworth, Dennis Pinkney, Wilf Harcourt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Middle row: Eric Davidson, Jim Husband, Gus Swales, Herbert Stevenson, Stan Butterworth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Front row: Fred Chapman, Bob Goldby, Jack(John Ernest)\u00a0Metcalf, Jack Hyde,\u00a0T Wicks (later\u00a0Major Wicks), Cyril Lynford.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Angela Cockburn tell us: \u201dJohn Ernest Metcalf (my grandfather) owned a bakery in Carlin How in the 1960s.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to Derick Pearson for many names, also Angela and Bob Dunn for the\u00a0update on names.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The men of \u201cD\u201d Company, LDV (Local Defence Volunteers or Look, Duck and Vanish); the Home Guard as they would have been known in the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>Back row: Albert Downs, Fred Butterworth, Dennis Pinkney, Wilf Harcourt<\/p>\n<p>Middle row: Eric Davidson, Jim Husband, Gus Swales, Herbert Stevenson, Stan Butterworth<\/p>\n<p>Front row: Fred Chapman, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defence-forces","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58499","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=58499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58500,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58499\/revisions\/58500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}