{"id":2691,"date":"2016-04-15T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:29:38","slug":"post-office-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/post-office-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"POST OFFICE VOLUNTEERS 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>LEINSTER LEADER<\/em> 20 May 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Post Office Volunteers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three members of the post office staff at Kildare \u2013 Messrs. R. Moloney, P. A. Courtney and P. H. Penman \u2013 have volunteered for army service and will leave Kildare on Monday next to join their units. While in Kildare they were very popular with the public as well as with the members of the post office staff. They have been made the recipients of valuable presentations by their colleagues. Soon after the opening of the war Messrs. B. Dowdy, R. Roberts and V. Foley volunteered from the Kildare post office and are at present on active service in France.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEINSTER LEADER 20 May 1916 Post Office Volunteers Three members of the post office staff at Kildare \u2013 Messrs. R. Moloney, P. A. Courtney and P. H. Penman \u2013 have volunteered for army service and will leave Kildare on Monday next to join their units. While in Kildare they were very popular with the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-history"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7911,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}