{"id":37215,"date":"2026-11-06T21:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T21:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=37215"},"modified":"2026-11-06T22:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:11:28","slug":"saki-knew-my-grandfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/saki-knew-my-grandfather\/","title":{"rendered":"Saki Knew My Grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They had both been born in Burma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for a time educated in Devon <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Saki was older than my grandfather <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They became friends in the years before the war<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was where the similarities ended <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As my grandfather a giant of a man <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Survived the war without major injury <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas Saki was shot by a German sniper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst sheltering in a crater near Beaumont- Hamel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0When my grandfather died in 1970 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was buried in the Sussex town of  Rye<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saki however has no known grave <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although he is commemorated <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the Thiepval Memorial <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Northern France <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had both been born in Burma And for a time educated in Devon Although Saki was older than my grandfather They became friends in the years before the war That was where the similarities ended As my grandfather a giant of a man Survived the war without major injury Whereas Saki was shot by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37221,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37215\/revisions\/37221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}