{"id":19084,"date":"2017-08-31T22:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19084"},"modified":"2017-08-31T22:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:36:41","slug":"king-street-private-percival-arthur-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19084","title":{"rendered":"King Street &#8211; Private Percival Arthur King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a relative for this piece<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17083103.jpg\" alt=\"King Street\"\/><br \/>\nTo commemorate the town&#8217;s first loss of the Great War a road in the new Morland Gardens development has been named after Private Percival Arthur King.<\/p>\n<p>On the tenth of September, 1914, the people of Abingdon mourned their first loss of the Great War. Private Percival Arthur King of court 22, Ock street, was killed in action taking part in the first Battle of Mons while serving with the 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment, British Expeditionary Force.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17083101.jpg\" alt=\"King Street\"\/><br \/>\nThis is an extract from the regimental diary of the day :- 10-09-14<\/p>\n<p>Regiment. 1st Royal Berkshire<\/p>\n<p>Location. France, COUPROU<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17083104.jpg\" alt=\"King Street\"\/><br \/>\nEntry: 6th Bde A.G. to 2nd Div. Battalion with 1 sect 36 Bde RFA and 1 sect of 2 Fd Co R.E. as vanguard. Hostile column early seen [sic]. Some doubt as to identity. Touch obtained at village of HAUTEVESNES. On passing village of St GUNGOULPH, Germans estimated one Battn and 4 guns took defensive position assunder road. 1\/Kings Rgt and 1\/K.R.R.C. deployed to left of vanguard. 1. Bt 5th Bgd moved up in support on right. NE position captured 12.45pm. Went about to deploy for further action against hostile artillery. Heavy shell fire from left. March continued at 4.45pm. Bivouac at 6.30pm at CHEVILLAN. Casualties Lt A. H Perrott and 1 other rank killed. Other ranks 23 wounded. 365 prisoners and 546 rifles captured. 57 dead buried.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17083102.jpg\" alt=\"King Street\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a relative for this piece To commemorate the town&#8217;s first loss of the Great War a road in the new Morland Gardens development has been named after Private Percival Arthur King. On the tenth of September, 1914, the people of Abingdon mourned their first loss of the Great War. Private Percival Arthur King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}