{"id":23012,"date":"2015-11-07T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=23012"},"modified":"2016-11-01T09:08:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T09:08:41","slug":"1915-a-porthill-scout-is-killed-in-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2015\/11\/07\/1915-a-porthill-scout-is-killed-in-action-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1915: A Porthill Scout is Killed in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One hundred years ago today, over a year into the Great War,\u00a0Private Joseph Simpson, 1638, 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), was killed in action<\/p>\n<p>Joe\u00a0was a Porthill Scout, and was the third of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/the-men\/joseph-joe-simpson\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read his full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Simpson b. Burslem 1894 &#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;:201,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/joseph-joe-simpson&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/joseph-joe-simpson&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, over a year into the Great War,\u00a0Private Joseph Simpson, 1638, 20th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), was killed in action Joe\u00a0was a Porthill Scout, and was the third of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War. 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