{"id":23242,"date":"2016-02-25T22:51:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T22:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=23242"},"modified":"2016-06-27T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T10:50:36","slug":"1916-a-porthill-scout-dies-of-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2016\/02\/25\/1916-a-porthill-scout-dies-of-wounds\/","title":{"rendered":"1916: A Porthill Scout Dies of Wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One hundred years ago today, a year and a half\u00a0into the Great War, Private Leonard Peacock, number 328, 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), died of his wounds that he received on 21st February 1916, aged 21 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leonard\u00a0was a Porthill Scout, and was the fourth of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2016\/02\/25\/1916-a-porthill-scout-dies-of-wounds\/plot-5-a-32-medium\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plot-5-A-32-Medium.jpg?fit=403%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"403,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FinePix S9500&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1174647815&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00333333333333&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Plot 5 A (32) (Medium)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plot-5-A-32-Medium.jpg?fit=403%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23243\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plot-5-A-32-Medium.jpg?resize=202%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Plot 5 A (32) (Medium)\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plot-5-A-32-Medium.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Plot-5-A-32-Medium.jpg?w=403&amp;ssl=1 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/the-men\/leonard-peacock\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read his full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leonard Peacock b. Burslem 1895 \u2013 d. France 1916.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gone-home.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"gone-home\" \/><\/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;:194,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/leonard-peacock&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/leonard-peacock&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, a year and a half\u00a0into the Great War, Private Leonard Peacock, number 328, 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), died of his wounds that he received on 21st February 1916, aged 21 years. Leonard\u00a0was a Porthill Scout, and was the fourth of eighteen of our Scouts, that we&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2016\/02\/25\/1916-a-porthill-scout-dies-of-wounds\/\">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-23242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgGvD-62S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242","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=23242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}