{"id":62,"date":"2011-08-28T12:54:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T11:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephcummings.wordpress.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:44:45","slug":"war-office-letter-death-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/2011\/08\/28\/war-office-letter-death-details\/","title":{"rendered":"War Office letter &#8211; death details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following letter confirms the Joe was killed on his ship when it was sunk in the harbour. No details of the ship&#8217;s name (Merchant Vessel Fishpool) or what the harbour was (Syracuse). This was no doubt for security reasons. Apparently there were some survivors but Joe wasn&#8217;t amongst them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/warofficeletter1-744x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"War Office letter confirming death on board ship\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/warofficeletter1-744x1024.jpeg 744w, https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/warofficeletter1-218x300.jpeg 218w, https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/warofficeletter1-768x1057.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/warofficeletter1-1116x1536.jpeg 1116w, https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/warofficeletter1-1488x2048.jpeg 1488w, https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/warofficeletter1-scaled.jpeg 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">War Office letter confirming death on board ship in harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following letter confirms the Joe was killed on his ship when it was sunk in the harbour. No details of the ship&#8217;s name (Merchant Vessel Fishpool) or what the harbour was (Syracuse). This was no doubt for security reasons. Apparently there were some survivors but Joe wasn&#8217;t amongst them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-office-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2hero.rpmail.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}