{"id":22808,"date":"2015-06-06T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=22808"},"modified":"2015-06-23T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:43:16","slug":"1915-a-porthill-scout-is-killed-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2015\/06\/06\/1915-a-porthill-scout-is-killed-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"1915: A Porthill Scout is Killed in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One hundred years ago today, 10 months into the Great War, Private Tom Walker Lewis, number\u00a02973 1\/5th Battalion Prince of Wales\u2019s (North Staffordshire Regiment), died in hospital in Boulogne after being shot in the head (despite some initial reports that he may survive).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tom was a Porthill Scout, and was the second of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tom-Lewis-Photo1.jpg?resize=208%2C397\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/the-men\/tom-walker-lewis\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read his full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Walker Lewis b. Wolstanton 1896 &#8211; d. France 1915.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1236\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2013\/04\/09\/ken-johnson-rip\/gone-home\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gone-home.gif?fit=113%2C89&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"113,89\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"gone-home\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gone-home.gif?fit=113%2C89&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1236\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gone-home.gif?resize=113%2C89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"gone-home\" width=\"113\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:<br \/>\nAge shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<br \/>\nAt the going down of the sun and in the morning,<br \/>\nWe will remember them.<\/p>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:217,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/tom-walker-lewis&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/tom-walker-lewis&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years ago today, 10 months into the Great War, Private Tom Walker Lewis, number\u00a02973 1\/5th Battalion Prince of Wales\u2019s (North Staffordshire Regiment), died in hospital in Boulogne after being shot in the head (despite some initial reports that he may survive). Tom was a Porthill Scout, and was the second of eighteen of&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2015\/06\/06\/1915-a-porthill-scout-is-killed-in-action\/\">Read More <i class=\"far fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"kia_subtitle":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgGvD-5VS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}