{"id":2420,"date":"2013-02-11T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2013-02-21T09:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T09:27:50","slug":"horsingtons-last-great-cavalry-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"Horsington&#8217;s last Great Cavalry Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pen-and-sword.co.uk\/images\/jackets\/3878.jpg\" width=\"139\" height=\"200\" \/>Military Historian Richard Mead is giving a talk on Sunday 10th March on the glittering career of General Sir Richard McCreery, a notable former Horsington resident.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard exaggerated his age in order to join up for the First World War. He served in the Lancers, survived a wounding (for which he received an MC), and in WW2 went on to\u00a0 command armoured divisions in France and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>He was chief of staff to General Alexander, and commanded the 8th Army in Italy, as well as the post-war British Army on the Rhine.<\/p>\n<p>Mead\u2019s book \u201cThe Last Great Cavalryman\u201d recalls General McReery\u2019s exploits in detail, and these form the substance of his most interesting\u00a0talk.<\/p>\n<p>4pm, Parish Church. Cream tea lovers can expect to be well-rewarded, as well as entertained. \u00a38 donation to the roof fund, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Historian Richard Mead is giving a talk on Sunday 10th March on the glittering career of General Sir Richard McCreery, a notable former Horsington resident. Sir Richard exaggerated his age in order to join up for the First World War. He served in the Lancers, survived a wounding (for which he received an MC), &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=2420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Horsington&#8217;s last Great Cavalry Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[2770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-D2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}