{"id":1218,"date":"2021-01-02T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2021-03-24T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:26:36","slug":"william-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/william-galway\/","title":{"rendered":"William Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We know from the CWGC cemetery register at Flesquieres Hill that\n\t\t\t\tWilliam was 25 when he died. The register also tells us he was the\n\t\t\t\tson of the late Robert and Elizabeth Galway, who lived at 39 Church\n\t\t\t\tView in Holywood, a suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

\n\t\t\t\tThe Great War medal roll tells us that William served in the Royal\n\t\t\t\tIrish Rifles before joining the new Tank Corps. He entered the war\n\t\t\t\tin France on October 3rd, 1915.

In August, 2008, The\n\t\t\t\tBelfast Telegraph newspaper published an article appealing for any\n\t\t\t\tfurther information. As a result, we made contact with Stewart\n\t\t\t\tGalway, William\u2019s nephew, and his great nephew, also called Stewart,\n\t\t\t\tboth of whom still live in Holywood.

The family were\n\t\t\t\table to provide the photograph of William in uniform \u2013 and a copy of\n\t\t\t\this birth certificate, which tells us William was born on May 29th,\n\t\t\t\t1892. His father Robert is described on the certificate as a\n\t\t\t\tlabourer. His relatives also have William\u2019s Great War medals.
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William’s widowed mother Elizabeth heard about her son’s\n\t\t\t\tdeath in a letter from the tank commander, 2\/Lt Frank Heap. He tried\n\t\t\t\tto dull the pain with kind words. Part of the letter was quoted in a\n\t\t\t\tdeath notice in the Belfast Evening Telegraph: “Your son was the\n\t\t\t\tlife and soul of my crew, doing two men’s work and cheering us all\n\t\t\t\tup. He kept us in shrieks of laughter right up to the moment of his\n\t\t\t\tdeath, and died with a laugh on his lips, like the true Irish\n\t\t\t\tgentlemen he was”.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We know from the CWGC cemetery register at Flesquieres Hill that William was 25 when he died. The register also tells us he was the son of the late Robert and Elizabeth Galway, who lived at 39 Church View in Holywood, a suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Great War medal roll tells us that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}