{"id":713,"date":"2015-10-21T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=713"},"modified":"2015-10-21T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T11:13:34","slug":"john-wyndham-hamilton-mcculloch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"John Wyndham Hamilton McCulloch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"color: #ff4b33; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/19151021_McCullochJWH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-714 alignright\" alt=\"19151021_McCulloch,JWH\" src=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/19151021_McCullochJWH.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/19151021_McCullochJWH.jpg 374w, http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/19151021_McCullochJWH-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John was the only son of John Exley McCulloch of Paddington. He was born in December 1894,and arrived up Ashburnham in 1909.<\/p>\n<p>He took part in the debating society. A report in The Elizabethan, notes that \u201cOn Thursday, October 19, the House met to discuss the following motion, \u2018That in the opinion of this House the advantages of a boarding school are exaggerated.&#8217;\u00d4\u00c7\u00aa The Seconder (Mr J.W. McCulloch), dwelt upon the splendid discipline of home life; in a moment of confidence, he gave the Society a glimpse of himself seated over his books in a lonely attic, from which the \u2018injusta noverca&#8217; forbade him to stir\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, his primary interest at school was sports and his contemporaries said he was a \u201cuseful\u201d player. He earned a pink in both Cricket and Football and, in 1913, he played cricket for Middlesex.<\/p>\n<p>On the 4<sup>th<\/sup> November 1914, he enlisted as 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Lieutenant for the 8<sup>th<\/sup> (Service) Battalion Border Regiment, and became Lieutenant the following February. He was serving as a temporary Captain when he was wounded in Flanders on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> October 1915.<\/p>\n<p>He died of his injuries at Bailleul the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John was the only son of John Exley McCulloch of Paddington. He was born in December 1894,and arrived up Ashburnham in 1909. He took part in the debating society. A report in The Elizabethan, notes that \u201cOn Thursday, October 19, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=713\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[359,104,91,71,358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}