{"id":153,"date":"2016-05-30T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=153"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:43:57","slug":"30-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/30\/30-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"30 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had half a dozen camels working most of the morning and moved our camp up closer to the guns. I had a bathe this afternoon, there were some splendid breakers today.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I rode out with the major on a small reconnaissance in front of the barb wire entanglements. We were looking for the best going to take the mobile section out, as one section has got to go out if Railhead is attacked, and get in rear of the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips105'>Anzac<\/span> division went out on a big reconnaissance today, they took the mountain battery with them and one subsection of the Ayrshire Horse Battery which is attached to them, also eleven hundred camels with forage and rations. They expect to be out about three days, and hope to get some way beyond Bin El Abd.<\/p>\n<p>Just off to the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips106'>O.Pip<\/span> as I am on duty there tonight.<\/p>\n<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('.classtoolTips105','Term used to describe\u00a0soldiers\u00a0in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','Observation Post (OP)'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had half a dozen camels working most of the morning and moved our camp up closer to the guns. I had a bathe this afternoon, there were some splendid breakers today. This evening I rode out with the major on a small reconnaissance in front of the barb wire entanglements. We were looking for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/30\/30-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">30 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-153","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\/153","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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}