{"id":72305,"date":"2012-12-07T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=72305"},"modified":"2022-12-12T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:12:34","slug":"corporal-robert-bannister-and-the-third-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=72305","title":{"rendered":"Corporal Robert Bannister and the Third Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BannisterR-Prison-Campe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BannisterR-Prison-Campe.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BannisterR-Prison-Campe-190x300.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BannisterR-Prison-Campe-95x150.jpg 95w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BannisterR-Prison-Campe-400x630.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skelton man Corporal Robert Bannister of the 4th Battalion Green Howards, spent the whole of the Second World War in captivity, he is shown (centre of our image) between two Green Howards, left is E. W. Horner (Loftus) and on the right is Jock Pearson (from Lingdale). The photograph was taken in a prison camp in Poland or Germany, from where Robert sent home some brilliant greetings cards painted by himself. We have been passed this image by Bill Danby of Skelton (he having been told by Robert\u2019s son Terry Bannister of Burnley). At first the Archive (and Bill Danby) had no name for the third man; however Tracy Park has advised us: \u201dThe soldier on the right is Alan \u2018jock\u2019 Peirson from Lingdale \u2013 we also have this picture sent by my dad from his pow camp Stalag XXID (dated 05.04.42). The man on the left is E. W. Horner from Loftus.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image and information kindly supplied by Bill Danby; also thanks to Tracy Park for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skelton man Corporal Robert Bannister of the 4th Battalion Green Howards, spent the whole of the Second World War in captivity, he is shown (centre of our image) between two Green Howards, left is E. W. Horner (Loftus) and on the right is Jock Pearson (from Lingdale). The photograph was taken in a [&#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-72305","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\/72305","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=72305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72307,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72305\/revisions\/72307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}