{"id":607,"date":"2014-11-05T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plattwarmemorial.org\/?page_id=607"},"modified":"2024-10-03T13:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:27:37","slug":"william-edward-mount-1899-1918","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/world-war-one\/william-edward-mount-1899-1918\/","title":{"rendered":"William Edward Mount (1899  &#8211; 1918)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h3 class=\"title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:24;line-height:1.5;\">Pte William Edward Mount (1899 &#8211; 1918)<\/h3><\/div><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-dropshadow imageframe-1 hover-type-zoomin\" style=\"-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);box-shadow: 3px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);margin-right:25px;float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/willim_mount.jpg\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[47b6c363c7656701111]\" data-title=\"William Edward Mount (1899 &#8211; 1918)\" title=\"William Edward Mount (1899 &#8211; 1918)\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/willim_mount-200x300.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-611\" srcset=\"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/willim_mount-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/willim_mount.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>William Edward Mount was the son of a farm labourer named William Rueben Mount and his wife, Esther Higgins. He was born in Greenstreet, Sittingbourne, on 4 July 1899 but grew up in Upper Platt with his six brothers and sisters, attending Platt School from 5 October 1903.<\/p>\n<p>In 1917, shortly after his eighteenth birthday and while working as a gardener, William enlisted in the Army at Guildford. He joined the 9th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment &#8211; a Territorial unit formed at Cley in Norfolk earlier that year. William would have been eligible for overseas service when he reached 19 and could have been sent to France in time for the advance into Flanders; however, he had been suffering from what appears to be acute rheumatic fever and died in Cambridge General Hospital on 28 January 1918.<\/p>\n<p>His parents brought his body back to Platt and buried him in the parish churchyard.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-607","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10375,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/607\/revisions\/10375"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/plattmemorialhall.org\/warmemorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}