{"id":9653,"date":"2017-01-21T14:10:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2017-06-28T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:53:38","slug":"willis-edgar-reginald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis, Edgar Reginald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Willis-Edgar-Reginald-2-0816.jpg\" alt=\"Edgar Reginald Willis\" width=\"370\" height=\"697\" data-wp-pid=\"13294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Willis-Edgar-Reginald-2-0816.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Willis-Edgar-Reginald-2-0816-159x300.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9655 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Willis-E-R-1115.jpg\" alt=\"Edgar Reginald Willis\" width=\"412\" height=\"845\" data-wp-pid=\"9655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Willis-E-R-1115.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Willis-E-R-1115-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Willis-E-R-1115-293x600.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/>Edgar Reginald Willis<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Rank:<\/em>\u00a0Lieutenant<\/p>\n<p><em>Regiment:<\/em>\u00a08th\u00a0Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment<\/p>\n<p><em>Parents:<\/em> Mr &amp; Mrs T W Willis<\/p>\n<p><em>Address:<\/em> 60 Cambridge Road, Hastings<\/p>\n<p><em>Other Info:<\/em> Text reads: &#8230; He has just been gazetted First Lieutenant, dating from June 2nd (1915). Lieutenant Willis went to France in July, and has been organising and training bombing parties for the Battalion and commands a company of picked me for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>According to CWGC, Edgar died aged 25 \u00a0on 13th July 1916 and is remembered at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/32200\/PERONNE%20ROAD%20CEMETERY,%20MARICOURT\">Peronne Road Cemetery<\/a>, Maricourt, grave reference I.G.23. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published:<\/em>\u00a0November 1915 &amp; August 1916<\/p>\n<p>Please use the comments box below if you can provide more information about this\u00a0person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Reginald Willis Rank:\u00a0Lieutenant Regiment:\u00a08th\u00a0Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Parents: Mr &amp; Mrs T W Willis Address: 60 Cambridge Road, Hastings Other Info: Text reads: &#8230; He has just been gazetted First Lieutenant, dating from June 2nd (1915). Lieutenant Willis went to France in July, and has been organising and training bombing parties for the Battalion<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"btn-filled btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/\" title=\"Willis, Edgar Reginald\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,501,6,18,511,442,5],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Willis, Edgar Reginald - WW1 Roll Of Honour<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Information about Edgar Reginald Willis, a Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment during WW1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/570fd452dbc6b64e046f61178a8e997a\"},\"headline\":\"Willis, Edgar Reginald\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-01-21T14:10:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-06-28T21:53:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/\"},\"wordCount\":120,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/570fd452dbc6b64e046f61178a8e997a\"},\"keywords\":[\"Army\",\"August 1916\",\"Hastings\",\"Killed\",\"November 1915\",\"Peronne Road Cemetery\",\"Royal Sussex Regiment\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Army\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/willis-edgar-reginald\/\",\"name\":\"Willis, Edgar Reginald - 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