{"id":64080,"date":"2010-04-08T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T10:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64080"},"modified":"2023-02-05T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:16:51","slug":"loftus-homing-society-presentation-evening-1949-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=64080","title":{"rendered":"Loftus Homing Society Presentation Evening (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LOFTUS1949jpg-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64079\" width=\"739\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LOFTUS1949jpg-a-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LOFTUS1949jpg-a-1-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LOFTUS1949jpg-a-1-398x300.jpg 398w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LOFTUS1949jpg-a-1-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LOFTUS1949jpg-a-1-400x302.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loftus Homing Society at their annual presentation evening in 1949,&nbsp;held in the Angel Inn, Loftus Market Place.&nbsp;The buffalo horns in the rear of the image were displayed as the Angel was used by the Buffs.&nbsp;It was&nbsp;called The Jack Cornwell Lodge after the 16 year old naval seaman who won Victoria Cross, he died as a result of wounds received at the Battle of Jutland May 1916.<\/strong> <strong>The Archive welcomes any additional names for this photograph.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Back row: ??, Shuller Wilson, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ?? , Rob Yeoman, ??, Jack (Lem) Grey.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Middle row: ??, Jack Hume, ??, ??, ??, William (Bill) Cook, ??, ??, ??.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Front row, seated: ??, George Berry, ??, ??.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sandra Gibson advises: \u201dSecond from left; is George Berry from Liverton Mines.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image courtesy of Stephen Steyert, with&nbsp;information from Marie Dixon (nee Cook), Tony and Eric Johnson, also thanks to Sandra Gibson for the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loftus Homing Society at their annual presentation evening in 1949,&nbsp;held in the Angel Inn, Loftus Market Place.&nbsp;The buffalo horns in the rear of the image were displayed as the Angel was used by the Buffs.&nbsp;It was&nbsp;called The Jack Cornwell Lodge after the 16 year old naval seaman who won Victoria Cross, he died [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pigeons-hobbies","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64080","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=64080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74007,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64080\/revisions\/74007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}