{"id":24153,"date":"2017-09-10T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?p=24153"},"modified":"2017-09-03T23:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T22:14:28","slug":"1917-a-porthill-scout-dies-at-passchendaele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2017\/09\/10\/1917-a-porthill-scout-dies-at-passchendaele\/","title":{"rendered":"1917: A Porthill Scout Dies at Passchendaele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One hundred years ago today, three years\u00a0into the Great War, Acting Bombardier Charles James Tilsley 313446, 2nd\/1st (North Midland) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery died age 20.<\/p>\n<p>Charles was a Porthill Scout, and was the twelth 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\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tilsley-17-November-1917_thumb.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tilsley 17 November 1917\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/the-men\/charles-james-tilsley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can read his full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles James Tilsley b. Stoke 1897 \u2013 d. Belgium 1917.<\/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>&nbsp;<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:126,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/charles-james-tilsley&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200807010742\\\/https:\\\/\\\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/the-men\\\/charles-james-tilsley\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 10:29:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-08 23:16:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-03 18:12:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-11 03:09:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-08-11 03:09:54&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, three years\u00a0into the Great War, Acting Bombardier Charles James Tilsley 313446, 2nd\/1st (North Midland) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery died age 20. Charles was a Porthill Scout, and was the twelth of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War. You can read&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2017\/09\/10\/1917-a-porthill-scout-dies-at-passchendaele\/\">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-24153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgGvD-6hz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24153","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=24153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24154,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24153\/revisions\/24154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}