{"id":17704,"date":"2012-11-11T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2012-11-11T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:14:17","slug":"in-memorium-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/in-memorium-4\/","title":{"rendered":"In memorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple recognition of some of our family members who served in the First and Second World Wars:<\/p>\n<h3>The Great War<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Private William Penman, Scots Guards, died 1915 at <a href=\"http:\/\/battlefields1418.50megs.com\/le_touret_memorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Le Touret<\/a>, age 25 <br \/>\n(Elizabeth&#8217;s great uncle)<\/li>\n<li>Private David Buller, Highland Light Infantry, died 1915 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstworldwar.com\/battles\/loos.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Loos<\/a>, age 35<br \/>\n(Elizabeth&#8217;s great grandfather)<\/li>\n<li>Private Walter Porteous, Northumberland Fusiliers, died 1917 at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Passchendaele\" target=\"_blank\">Passchendaele<\/a>, age 18 <br \/>\n(my great uncle)<\/li>\n<li>Corporal John Mulholland, Royal Tank Corps, died 1918 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/search\/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=62000&#038;mode=1\" target=\"_blank\">Harbonnieres<\/a>, age 24 <br \/>\n(Elizabeth&#8217;s great uncle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Second World War<\/h3>\n<p><UL><\/p>\n<li>Flying Officer Richard Porteous, RAF, survived the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Malaya\" target=\"_blank\">defeat in Malaya<\/a> and lived through the war <br \/>\n(my uncle)<\/li>\n<li>Able Seaman John Penman, RN, served in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Defensively_Equipped_Merchant_Ships\" target=\"_blank\">Defensively Equipped Merchant<\/a> fleet on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vac-acc.gc.ca\/general\/sub.cfm?source=feature\/murmansk\/history\" target=\"_blank\">Murmansk Run<\/a> (and other convoy routes), lived through the war <br \/>\n(Elizabeth&#8217;s father)<\/li>\n<li>Private Archie Black (commissioned after the war and retired as a Major), Gordon Highlanders, captured at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historylearningsite.co.uk\/fall_of_singapore.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore<\/a> (aged 15) and survived a Japanese POW camp <br \/>\n(Elizabeth&#8217;s uncle)<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Buller, &#8220;Lumberjill&#8221; in the Women&#8217;s Land Army in Scotland through the war.<br \/>(Elizabeth&#8217;s mother)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In Flanders fields the poppies blow<br \/>\nBetween the crosses row on row,<br \/>\nThat mark our place; and in the sky<br \/>\nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly<br \/>\nScarce heard amid the guns below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are the Dead. Short days ago<br \/>\nWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<br \/>\nLoved and were loved, and now we lie<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Take up our quarrel with the foe:<br \/>\nTo you from failing hands we throw<br \/>\nThe torch; be yours to hold it high.<br \/>\nIf ye break faith with us who die<br \/>\nWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow<br \/>\nIn Flanders fields.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple recognition of some of our family members who served in the First and Second World Wars: The Great War Private William Penman, Scots Guards, died 1915 at Le Touret, age 25 (Elizabeth&#8217;s great uncle) Private David Buller, Highland Light Infantry, died 1915 at Loos, age 35 (Elizabeth&#8217;s great grandfather) Private Walter Porteous, Northumberland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,246,230],"tags":[145,31,30],"class_list":["post-17704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-ww1","category-ww2","tag-airforce","tag-army","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4By","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17713,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17704\/revisions\/17713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}