{"id":137,"date":"2016-05-22T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=137"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:37:42","slug":"22-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/22\/22-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"22 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips70'>Reveille<\/span> 3:30 this morning and the whole brigade moved off and took up a position southeast of the aerodrome, and shot off about fifty rounds per battery. The General was watching and seemed satisfied with the results of the shoot. I had a glorious bathe later in the morning. As we were passing the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'>Bikanir camel corps<\/span> camp on the way back, the Indians brought out four black sheep and killed them in rather a revolting way and seemed to gloat over it too.<\/p>\n<p>Orders came in this evening that our battery is to move out about thirty miles into Sinai in a day or two. To start with we shall be fairly near <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span>, but I am pretty certain that the ultimate plan of campaign is a combined attack by land, sea, and air at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips66'>El Arish<\/span>. We&#8217;ve got some busy days ahead.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips10','A\u00a0unit of Imperial Service Troops from India. \u00a0They have been active since 1889 and fought for the Allies in World War I and II.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips66','Arish or Al-Arish - the capital and largest city of North Sinai, one of the governorates of Egypt'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips70','Signals the troops to awaken for morning roll call. \u00a0It accompanied the raising of the National Colours. See more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalengineers.ca\/bugle.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.royalengineers.ca\/bugle.html<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips72','A city in northern Egypt'); <\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reveille 3:30 this morning and the whole brigade moved off and took up a position southeast of the aerodrome, and shot off about fifty rounds per battery. The General was watching and seemed satisfied with the results of the shoot. I had a glorious bathe later in the morning. As we were passing the Bikanir &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/22\/22-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">22 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-137","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\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}