{"id":151,"date":"2016-05-29T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=151"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:43:16","slug":"29-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/29\/29-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"29 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working on the emplacements from six till ten this morning, then went and had a bathe. The colonel went down to Railhead this morning to have lunch with <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips81'>Elliott<\/span> and Kenning at the wagon line and left for <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> about four.<\/p>\n<p>This evening, the major has refused to let Kitty leave the battery, so the colonel is baulked for the present, though he offered any horse in brigade headquarters in exchange, though none of them came up to the mare.<\/p>\n<p>Digging hard again from five this evening till eight. A mail came in this evening &#8211; I had a good budget of letters from home.<\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on the emplacements from six till ten this morning, then went and had a bathe. The colonel went down to Railhead this morning to have lunch with Elliott and Kenning at the wagon line and left for Kantara about four. This evening, the major has refused to let Kitty leave the battery, so the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/29\/29-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">29 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-151","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\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}