{"id":5297,"date":"2015-03-08T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:42:43","slug":"lester-birky-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/lester-birky-carving\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester Birky Carving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following on from his recent information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/index.php\/wartime-concrete\/\" title=\"Wartime Concrete\">Wartime Concrete in Berkshire<\/a>, Philip came across this carving in a tree close to the &#8216;mystery building&#8217; illustrated previously. He already knew that the 501st &amp; 101st Airborne had been stationed in the area during the run up to D-Day and he proceeded to&nbsp;investigate&nbsp;the name on the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lesterbirky2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lesterbirky2-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Lester Birky Carving\" class=\"wp-image-470\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lesterbirky2-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lesterbirky2-100x70.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lesterbirky2-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lesterbirky2-200x140.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lesterbirky2-450x315.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lesterbirky2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lester Birky Carving<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazingly, he has tracked down LESTER BIRKY to the United States, where at the age of 75 he is still farming. Having written a letter explaining his find Lester has replied and soon we hope to be able to give lots more information on the buildings and the man himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Philip William Bellew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from his recent information on Wartime Concrete in Berkshire, Philip came across this carving in a tree close to the &#8216;mystery building&#8217; illustrated previously. He already knew that the 501st &amp; 101st Airborne had been stationed in the area during the run up to D-Day and he proceeded to&nbsp;investigate&nbsp;the name on the tree. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berkshire","tag-carving","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}