{"id":68747,"date":"2010-11-01T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=68747"},"modified":"2021-11-21T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T16:49:29","slug":"matchless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=68747","title":{"rendered":"Matchless!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/scn_0228-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68746\" width=\"705\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/scn_0228-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/scn_0228-1-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/scn_0228-1-424x300.jpg 424w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/scn_0228-1-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/scn_0228-1-2048x1448.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/scn_0228-1-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/scn_0228-1-400x283.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This young lady featured a lot in Loftus School Sports activities. Unfortunately the Second World War put a dampener on the athletics, but here on a Matchless G3 is Brenda Varty, sorry Private Varty, B, W\/249378, \u2013 in khaki and carrying despatches for 913 Coy. R.A.S.C. John Aitken confesses: &#8220;Fantastic. Growing up as your next door neighbour at 3 Wood View, I knew that Uncle Less drove a tank and ate Germans (Sorry to any Germans reading) with salt and pepper, and you rode dispatch, but hadn\u2019t seen a picture until this one. Thanks.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image courtesy of Brenda Horness, thanks to John Aitken for the update.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This young lady featured a lot in Loftus School Sports activities. Unfortunately the Second World War put a dampener on the athletics, but here on a Matchless G3 is Brenda Varty, sorry Private Varty, B, W\/249378, \u2013 in khaki and carrying despatches for 913 Coy. R.A.S.C. John Aitken confesses: &#8220;Fantastic. Growing up as [&#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-68747","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\/68747","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=68747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68748,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747\/revisions\/68748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}