{"id":4391,"date":"2018-12-21T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2018-12-21T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:14:14","slug":"frederick-curnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/21\/frederick-curnow\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Curnow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve recently received a note from Kieran Saunders about his great uncle, Rifleman Frederick Curnow, who was killed in France during May\u00a01916:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4392 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Frederick-James-Curnow-145x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Frederick-James-Curnow-145x300.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Frederick-James-Curnow-768x1590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Frederick-James-Curnow-495x1024.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Frederick-James-Curnow.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>&#8220;My Great Uncle Frederick James Curnow was with the London Irish Rifles in the First World War and was killed in action on 11th\u00a0May 1916, aged 21. I have attached a photo of him in uniform and also a group photo including other unknown comrades, he is standing second from left. I believe his body was not found and he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4393 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/London-Irish-Rifles-Group-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/London-Irish-Rifles-Group-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/London-Irish-Rifles-Group-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/London-Irish-Rifles-Group-1024x653.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>He was the eldest son of Frederick &amp; Annie Curnow born 1895 in Chelsea, London and the family say his mother was so broken hearted that her son was killed that she died just 9 months later.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4394 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Memorial-Card-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Memorial-Card-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Memorial-Card-768x250.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Memorial-Card-1024x333.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Quis Separabit.<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve recently received a note from Kieran Saunders about his great uncle, Rifleman Frederick Curnow, who was killed in France during May\u00a01916: &#8220;My Great Uncle Frederick James Curnow was with the London Irish Rifles in the First World War and was killed in action on 11th\u00a0May 1916, aged 21. I have attached a photo of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-world-war","category-photo-gallery","category-regimental-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4399,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions\/4399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}