{"id":135,"date":"2016-05-21T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=135"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:36:58","slug":"21-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/21\/21-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"21 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips33'>Orderly dog<\/span> today, took the rough exercise at 5:15. Church parade at 9. Bathed after stables; we changed our place this time and bathed from an old derelict barge where we got great fun diving.<\/p>\n<p>A mail came from home this afternoon, lots of news.<\/p>\n<p>Enemy aeroplanes bombed <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span> last night and did, according to Osman, a good deal of damage in the Arab quarter.<\/p>\n<p>In an intelligence report sent round to us this evening, an agent reports that at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips41'>El Hassana<\/span> the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> have a force of about three thousand men, composed of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span>, Syrians, and Arab camelmen, also some Howitzer guns. They are under the command of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips71'>Sami Bey<\/span>.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Army slang for and orderly corporal, orderly sergeant, or orderly officer.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips41','There was a raid of El Hassana the next year, on 17th February 1917. \u00a0It was part of the British forces\\' plan to recapture the Sinai Peninsula.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips56','A busy sea port along the Suez Canal in Egypt which is crucial for exportation. It gained a lot of importance during the start of the twentieth century and is now one of the biggest cities in Egypt.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips71','Hamil <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips71'>Sami Bey<\/span> was an Ottoman Army Colonel who served in WWI. \u00a0He dies in 1925, aged 59.<br\/><br\/><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-389\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/119\/2016\/06\/Sami-Bey-240x300.png\" alt=\"Sami Bey\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/>'); <\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orderly dog today, took the rough exercise at 5:15. Church parade at 9. Bathed after stables; we changed our place this time and bathed from an old derelict barge where we got great fun diving. A mail came from home this afternoon, lots of news. Enemy aeroplanes bombed Port Said last night and did, according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/21\/21-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">21 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-135","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\/135","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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}