{"id":1235,"date":"2021-10-02T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/favell.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=1235"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:24:42","slug":"leslie-benjamin-favell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/leslie-benjamin-favell\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Benjamin Favell"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1235\" class=\"elementor elementor-1235\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1ad86091 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1ad86091\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"service-1\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-10d32b4d\" data-id=\"10d32b4d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-3235d0c5 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3235d0c5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-788867c5\" data-id=\"788867c5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38ba4556 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"38ba4556\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Leslie Benjamin Favell<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ab21391 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ab21391\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Information from the Commonwealth War graves Commission: &#8211;<\/p><p>893238 Private Leslie Benjamin Favell, Army Catering Corps, attached to the Royal Artillery, died between 1st November 1944 and 2nd November 1944 and is buried in grave IV. K. 1. in the Florence War Cemetery, Italy.\u00a0 He was 28 years old.\u00a0 The personal inscription on the gravestone reads &#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Missed by those who loved you best. A vacant chair not filled&#8221;<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">His death was reported in the Hunts Post on the 7th December that year, describing him as having drowned in the Mediterranean theatre of war.\u00a0 Florence is beside the river Arno.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1a997b18\" data-id=\"1a997b18\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37495349 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"37495349\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-CWG.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1236\" alt=\"Florence CWG\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-CWG.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.favell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-CWG-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.favell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Florence-CWG-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Benjamin Favell Information from the Commonwealth War graves Commission: &#8211; 893238 Private Leslie Benjamin Favell, Army Catering Corps, attached to the Royal Artillery, died between 1st November 1944 and 2nd November 1944 and is buried in grave IV. K. 1. in the Florence War Cemetery, Italy.\u00a0 He was 28 years old.\u00a0 The personal inscription [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1235\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}