{"id":105,"date":"2016-05-07T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=105"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:23:18","slug":"7-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/07\/7-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"7 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church parade at 8:30. Bathed after stables, A1. Siesta during the afternoon. I had my hair cut after tea; we&#8217;ve got a man in the battery, Taylor, who has become barber to the brigade and does it very well. Bathed soon after six, very nice as long as you were in the water, but the mosquitoes let us know as soon as we got out. Tomorrow the colonel, battery commander, and a subaltern from each battery &#8211; I&#8217;m the lucky one &#8211; have got to leave here at four o&#8217;clock in the morning and go to Railhead. There we shall get horses from the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips95'>Anzacs<\/span> and then ride eight miles across the desert to a place called Mahamdiya, which is on the coast in line with <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span> and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span>, to reconnoitre for a position for the brigade. They don&#8217;t know if the place is held by the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> or not &#8211; we shall very probably have some excitement. If the position is alright, the idea is to send a big force of infantry there with our brigade, so we shall be able to get in behind the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> and cut their lines of communication when they attack down the Northern Route.<\/p>\n<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span> and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips81'>Elliott<\/span> have just come in with four very decent bass, one weighing over four pounds! I will turn in early, it&#8217;s been so hot all day, the shade temperature was 98 degrees at midday and a great deal more in the tents.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips81','Captain Newlyn Mason Elliott (1890-1969).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips95','Term used to describe soldiers\u00a0in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips97','See information:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.1914-1918.net\/romani.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.1914-1918.net\/<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span>.html<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips99','A town in Egypt. \u00a0A large battle on the same name, the Battle of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span>, which was an attack by the Central Powers on the Suez Canal, took place between 3 and 5 August 1916. This was the battle in which Dick tragically lost his life.<br\/><br\/>&nbsp;'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips103','More information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1914-1918.net\/suez.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Turkish attack on the Suez Canal 3 February 1915<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips105','Term used to describe\u00a0soldiers\u00a0in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips107','Located in the Sinai Desert in Egypt. The Battle of Katia took place in April 1916 between British and Ottoman forces.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church parade at 8:30. Bathed after stables, A1. Siesta during the afternoon. I had my hair cut after tea; we&#8217;ve got a man in the battery, Taylor, who has become barber to the brigade and does it very well. Bathed soon after six, very nice as long as you were in the water, but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/07\/7-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 May 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}