{"id":6797,"date":"2026-03-11T21:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:18:09","slug":"lydney-scouts-from-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/lydney-scouts-from-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"An early image of Lydney Scouts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A scan of a newspaper cutting from a local newspaper from about 1972 (unsure exactly which newspaper or exactly which date; we&#8217;ve only retained this particular clipping) showing the Boy Scouts troop of 1912. Roland Matthews is the leftmost kneeling boy, and the boy second from the right in the back might be his brother Sidney; the newspaper provides names for everybody but I&#8217;m unfamiliar with the others and don&#8217;t know their first names<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexandrina Wilson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"845\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/scouts-text-845x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The text to go with the scouts photo\" class=\"wp-image-6799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/scouts-text-845x1024.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/scouts-text-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/scouts-text-768x930.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/scouts-text.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scan of a newspaper cutting from a local newspaper from about 1972<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,55],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lydney","tag-people","tag-scouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}