{"id":139,"date":"2016-05-23T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:38:25","slug":"23-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/23\/23-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"23 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I left <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> with Houghton, four men, and a cook by the midday forage train for Railhead, which is now level with <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips99'>Romani<\/span><\/span>. <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips81'>Elliott<\/span> and Kenning were to leave <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> at 4:30 this evening with the horses and expect to get here at 4 o&#8217;clock tomorrow morning. I got here about two thirty and we&#8217;ve been busy putting up the temporary horse lines and getting forage, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The water for the horses is over a mile away at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips99'>Romani<\/span><\/span> &#8211; some wells in an oasis. I walked over there this afternoon to have a look at them and met a patrol of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips95'>Anzacs<\/span> coming in with a Turkish prisoner. They had come upon a party of about sixteen of them, but all had got away on camels except this one. He was a tough hardy looking ruffian, dressed in a sort of light khaki uniform with baggy breeches and puttees, a red sash, and a red and yellow handkerchief on his head which hung a good way down his back.<\/p>\n<p>I hope our move is genuine this time and we shan&#8217;t have orders to go back to <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> as soon as the horses arrive here.<\/p>\n<p>Bombardier Davy has left us today, he is going back to England as he has been given a commission in the East Anglian R.F.A. He will be a great loss to the battery staff.<\/p>\n<p>I shall curl up now for a nap, but it will have to be with one eye open as the horses may arrive any time between two and four.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips79','Al Qantarah El Sharqiyya \u2013 a city in north east Egypt on the eastern side of the Suez Canal'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips81','Captain Newlyn Mason Elliott (1890-1969).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips85','More commonly known as Al Quantarah El Sharqiyya, <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> is around 100 miles from Cairo. Major depot and headquarters during WW1. It is also the place where Richard is buried.<br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/54500\/KANTARA%20WAR%20MEMORIAL%20CEMETERY\">http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/54500\/<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span>%20WAR%20MEMORIAL%20CEMETERY <\/a>'); <\/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('.classtoolTips105','Term used to describe\u00a0soldiers\u00a0in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left Kantara with Houghton, four men, and a cook by the midday forage train for Railhead, which is now level with Romani. Elliott and Kenning were to leave Kantara at 4:30 this evening with the horses and expect to get here at 4 o&#8217;clock tomorrow morning. I got here about two thirty and we&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/23\/23-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">23 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-139","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\/139","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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}