{"id":143,"date":"2016-05-25T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=143"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:39:48","slug":"25-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/25\/25-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"25 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ross Mountain Battery got away soon after five this morning but our guns didn&#8217;t appear till nearly ten. They had got stuck in the sand &#8211; the sand tyres which we&#8217;ve been issued with to put on the wheels aren&#8217;t a great deal of use. The sand is very deep indeed here and it was all ten horses in a beam could do to get the guns along at all. We&#8217;ve got to keep twenty four draft horses (six teams) and four riding horses here, so that one section of the battery can be mobile, at least that is what the authorities seem to think, but we think we shall be very lucky if we can keep one gun and firing battery wagon mobile with that number in this heavy sand. All the other horses are at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span>; <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips81'>Elliott<\/span> and Kenning are with them, I have left &#8220;Kitty&#8221; and Houghton there too.<\/p>\n<p>The guns are in position about half a mile from our camp in an emplacement, but the major is going to try and get them to let us move the camp up close to the guns and also change the gun positions. Only one detachment have got to sleep at the guns at night as we have got outposts out in front and should be warned in time if the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> are on the move. The battery is connected up by telephone line to the camp, and the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips106'>O.Pip<\/span> is also connected up to the battery in the camp.<\/p>\n<p>The orderly officer has got to sleep at the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips106'>O.Pip<\/span> each night with one replacement. I am <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips33'>Orderly dog<\/span> today, so I&#8217;ve got to go out to the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips106'>O.Pip<\/span> for the night after mess. It is a sandbag dugout about a thousand yards to the right flank of, and in front of, the guns, just behind the infantry first line trenches. Garside turned up for mess this evening, he&#8217;d been seeing the horses of the Glasgow Yeomanry at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span> and they had to come and see these here. He is having the loan of my flea bag tonight as I am in the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips106'>O.Pip<\/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('.classtoolTips81','Captain Newlyn Mason Elliott (1890-1969).'); <\/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('.classtoolTips106','Observation Post (OP)'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ross Mountain Battery got away soon after five this morning but our guns didn&#8217;t appear till nearly ten. They had got stuck in the sand &#8211; the sand tyres which we&#8217;ve been issued with to put on the wheels aren&#8217;t a great deal of use. The sand is very deep indeed here and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/25\/25-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">25 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-143","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\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}