{"id":17547,"date":"2023-12-13T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T08:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fippennynews.co.uk\/?p=17547"},"modified":"2023-12-13T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T08:05:31","slug":"help-with-historical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/?p=17547","title":{"rendered":"Help with Historical Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fragment-0-pggb\">\n<div class=\"component-paragraph pb-3  text-left text-break\">\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17548\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17548 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2023\/12\/Arthur-William-Gillingham-2_600.jpg?resize=440%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2023\/12\/Arthur-William-Gillingham-2_600.jpg?w=440&amp;ssl=1 440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2023\/12\/Arthur-William-Gillingham-2_600.jpg?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2023\/12\/Arthur-William-Gillingham-2_600.jpg?resize=110%2C150&amp;ssl=1 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur William Gillingham (Ed.: presumed circa 1940s\/early 1950s)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>A historical researcher in Gillingham purchased two WWII Royal Navy medals and a small collection of photographs earlier this year. He would like to find out more about the recipient of the medals &#8211; an &#8216;<strong>Arthur William Gillingham<\/strong>&#8216;. He has found two possible candidates, both born in Dorset in 1918.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the most likely was from Okeford Fitzpaine since he does not seem to have left descendants. This would explain how the medals and photographs came to be sold.<\/p>\n<p>From his obituary he believes AW Gillingham lived at Netherway Cottages, Lower<br \/>\nStreet, Okeford Fitzpaine until his death in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>If you recognise Arthur \/ William \/ Bill and would like to help please contact Robin Clay who will connect you with the researcher.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>Robin Clay<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Robin_B.Clay@virgin.net<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A historical researcher in Gillingham purchased two WWII Royal Navy medals and a small collection of photographs earlier this year. He would like to find out more about the recipient of the medals &#8211; an &#8216;Arthur William Gillingham&#8216;. He has found two possible candidates, both born in Dorset in 1918. He believes the most likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"class_list":["post-17547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fippennynews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/2023\/12\/Arthur-William-Gillingham-2_600.jpg?fit=440%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fippennynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}