{"id":159,"date":"2014-10-15T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2024-08-20T13:11:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:11:02","slug":"harry-hargreaves-wounded","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/?page_id=159","title":{"rendered":"Harry Hargreaves (wounded)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves.jpg\" alt=\"harry_hargreaves\" width=\"350\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photo shows my mother&#8217;s parents on their wedding day in Multan, India, in 1910. My mother was born in Multan in 1913.<\/p>\n<p>The family was posted back to the UK in 1916 and Harry served with the Lancashire fusiliers on the Western Front as a Company Sergeant Major.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves2.jpg\" alt=\"harry_hargreaves2\" width=\"275\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves2.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves2-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/> <i>Written on back &#8211; &#8220;IT and two chums behind the lines at St. Pol &#8217;17&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He sustained a &#8220;G.S. wound face and neck. Severe jaw fracture&#8221; at Ypres on 31st July 1917 and was awarded a \u00a3250 gratuity. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in May 1918 &#8220;for service in the field&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves3.jpg\" alt=\"harry_hargreaves3\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves3.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry_hargreaves3-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Demobbed in 1919, he spent the rest of his long life as a Ministry of Pensions official and father to his four children.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"HMS Tiger (sunk 1908)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/?page_id=240\">See here<\/a> for Harry&#8217;s younger brother James, who died at sea in 1908 when HMS Tiger was accidentally sunk during exercises south of the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jeremy Cooper, exhibition organiser<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo shows my mother&#8217;s parents on their wedding day in Multan, India, in 1910. My &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/?page_id=159\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harry Hargreaves (wounded)<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/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-159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/echoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}