{"id":3012,"date":"1943-05-14T22:00:45","date_gmt":"1943-05-14T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2019-04-18T00:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:34:22","slug":"sinking-of-the-ahs-centaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/?p=3012","title":{"rendered":"Sinking of the AHS Centaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23032 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/1943\/05\/640px-AHS_Centaur_1944-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/1943\/05\/640px-AHS_Centaur_1944-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/1943\/05\/640px-AHS_Centaur_1944.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>My third cousin, three times removed, <a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/FH\/905.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reginald McGregor Blackman <\/a>born in 1904 and 39 years of age died in the sinking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AHS_Centaur\">AHS Centaur.<\/a> He was working in the 2\/12th Field Ambulance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a strange coincidence, I <a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=2043\">returned from Singapore to Fremantle on another ship called the Centaur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2\/12th_Field_Ambulance_%28Australia%29\">The <strong>2\/12th Field Ambulance<\/strong> was an Australian military unit of the Second Australian Imperial Force, serving during World War II. During their six years of service, over 200 soldiers were killed, the highest figure for a non-combatant unit in Australian history.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My third cousin, three times removed, Reginald McGregor Blackman born in 1904 and 39 years of age died in the[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,14],"tags":[192,193,194,195,70,160,196,38,197,198],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackman","category-family-history","tag-212-field-ambulance","tag-ahs","tag-blackman","tag-centaur","tag-death","tag-family-history","tag-field-ambulance","tag-ship","tag-submarine","tag-torpedoed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23033,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/23033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/fh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}