{"id":51949,"date":"2014-06-22T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51949"},"modified":"2014-06-22T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T13:52:17","slug":"saving-private-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51949","title":{"rendered":"Saving Private Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=51951\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smith-brothers-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"Smith brothers\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smith-brothers-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smith-brothers-375x333.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Smith-brothers.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ex-PH2 sent us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/before-saving-private-ryan-pvt-smith-was-saved-1.289900\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> which reports the story of the six Smith brothers, sons of a chimney sweep in Barnard Castle in the north of England, who went off to war &#8220;for King &#038; Country&#8221; during the First World War. Five of those brothers were killed in combat and the Queen Mary ordered Wilfred, the sixth son home. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> So Wilfred went home to Barnard Castle \u2014 though little is known about exactly how that came about. He suffered the lingering respiratory effects of a mustard gas attack and newspaper reports suggested he was temporarily blinded. But once home, he worked as a chimney sweep and a stone mason.<\/p>\n<p>At the Bowes Museum, a memorial was erected to residents who fell in the Great War, including Wilfred&#8217;s brothers. His mother laid the first wreath at its dedication in 1923 \u2014 chosen by the war veterans for the honor. Wilfred was at her side.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Wilfred Smith lived until 1972, when he died at age 74. He was a frequent visitor to the monument at the Bowes Museum that bears his brothers&#8217; names.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, you should read the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sent us a link from Stars &#038; Stripes which reports the story of the six &hellip; <a title=\"Saving Private Smith\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51949\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving Private Smith<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}