{"id":23631,"date":"2016-07-23T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=23631"},"modified":"2016-06-27T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:41:39","slug":"1916-a-second-porthill-scout-dies-on-the-somme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2016\/07\/23\/1916-a-second-porthill-scout-dies-on-the-somme\/","title":{"rendered":"1916: A Second Porthill Scout Dies on the Somme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One hundred years ago today, nearly two years\u00a0into the Great War, 23 days in the Battle of the Somme and just a week after the last \u00a0of our Scouts was killed, Private Charles Edward Dryhurst G\/9675, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers was killed in action aged just 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles\u00a0was a Porthill Scout, and was the sixth of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War. He was also the second of the three Porthill Scouts, that we know of, killed on the Somme.<\/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\/Dryhurst-C-E-Thiepval.jpg?resize=253%2C132\" width=\"253\" height=\"132\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/the-men\/charles-edward-dryhurst\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can read his full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles Edward Dryhurst b. Audley\u00a01898 \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<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dcihh_Zaxl4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\">\n<div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:168,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/charles-edward-dryhurst&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200807002643\\\/https:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/charles-edward-dryhurst\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:31:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 20:37:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-20 12:44:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-07 11:36:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-07 11:36:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years ago today, nearly two years\u00a0into the Great War, 23 days in the Battle of the Somme and just a week after the last \u00a0of our Scouts was killed, Private Charles Edward Dryhurst G\/9675, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers was killed in action aged just 18. 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