{"id":31,"date":"2014-02-25T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T09:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/winter\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T09:07:02","slug":"winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Next door to the Maynards, at 40 Edgecumbe Street, George and Harriet Winter also lost three sons. These were <strong>Victor Winter<\/strong>, aged 19, killed 17th September 1918; <strong>Clarence Winter<\/strong>, aged 21, killed 30th September 1918, and <strong>Harry Winter<\/strong> who died on the 6th November 1918. All were lost within the last three months of the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #282829; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23.3333px; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Willam, Arthur and John Henr<\/strong>y&nbsp;<strong>Wilkinson<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #282829; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23.3333px;\">, three brothers, killed within months of each in 1917. They were the sons of John William Willkinson and Jessie Sheppard, from Wescott Street. Their father was a well known market Gardener in Sutton and Ings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #282829; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23.3333px;\">Sgt, John Henry Wilkinson, MM, a Hull school Teacher enlisted in the 10th (Hull Commercials) EYR. He was wounded at Oppy Wood on 03\/05\/1917, and died of wounds, on 02\/06\/1917, aged 24. Driver, William Sheppard Wilkinson, RFA, was killed in action on 25\/09\/1917, aged 19.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #282829; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23.3333px;\">His brother, Private, Arthur Frederick Wilkinson, served with the 44th Canadians, and was killed at Paschendaele, on 27\/10\/1917, aged 22. Their names are listed together on the Sutton village war memorial.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next door to the Maynards, at 40 Edgecumbe Street, George and Harriet Winter also lost three sons. These were Victor Winter, aged 19, killed 17th September 1918; Clarence Winter, aged 21, killed 30th September 1918, and Harry Winter who died on the 6th November 1918. All were lost within the last three months of the &#8230; <a title=\"Winter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/?p=31\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-that-lost-three-sons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}