{"id":130,"date":"2014-10-15T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2024-08-20T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:02:22","slug":"levi-button","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/?page_id=130","title":{"rendered":"Levi Button (died aged 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/levi_button_record.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-75 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/levi_button_record-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"levi_button_record\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/levi_button_record-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/levi_button_record.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Click on a photo for a larger version<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Levi was the brother of my wife&#8217;s great grandmother.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Born in 1886<\/li>\n<li>Married 1910<\/li>\n<li>Joined up with the Grenadier Guards &#8211; 15 December 1914<\/li>\n<li>Went missing during the Battle of the Somme &#8211; 25 September 1916<\/li>\n<li>Next of Kin notified that he was missing &#8211; 16 October 1916<\/li>\n<li>Next of Kin notified that he was dead &#8211; 09 July 1917<br \/>\n(although his body was never found)<\/li>\n<li>Widow&#8217;s pension paid dating from &#8211; 21 May 1917<\/li>\n<li>Total service: 243 days in UK, and 1 year 42 days in France<\/li>\n<li>Left a wife with four children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His name is listed on the Thiepval Memorial as one of the tens of thousands whose bodies were never found.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-24 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/button.jpg\" alt=\"button\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/button.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/button-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular;\">Steve Clark\u00a0 &#8211; &#8216;Oh What a Lovely War!&#8217; cast member.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on a photo for a larger version Levi was the brother of my wife&#8217;s great grandmother. Born in 1886 Married 1910 Joined up with the Grenadier Guards &#8211; 15 December 1914 Went missing during the Battle of the Somme &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/?page_id=130\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Levi Button (died aged 31)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}