{"id":169,"date":"2016-04-30T17:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=169"},"modified":"2016-04-30T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:05:54","slug":"6-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/6-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"6 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Away again early this morning to the guns; I got back and had a lovely bathe about midday. Rode out the other side of the canal after lunch with <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips81'>Elliott<\/span> and finished getting ammunition into the wagons and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips87'>Limbers<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0as we are going to shoot tomorrow. We have got to take up our position and do everything exactly as we shall if the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> attack. I got the teams hooked in about dusk and took the guns to the position the brigade is going to hold. I got back over the canal to the camp soon after eight, ravenously hungry. <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span> down with a bad go of fever tonight, but I expect he will shake it off in a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>I do wish we were going to let fly at the old <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> tomorrow, but I don&#8217;t believe they will even try and attack the aeroplane. People tell us there is a strongish Turkish post about forty miles away; our flying men pop over and say good morning to them periodically, and drop a bomb or two.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips81','Captain Newlyn Mason Elliott (1890-1969).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips87','A two-wheeled cart; designed to pull along artillery.'); <\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Away again early this morning to the guns; I got back and had a lovely bathe about midday. Rode out the other side of the canal after lunch with Elliott and finished getting ammunition into the wagons and Limbers\u00a0\u00a0as we are going to shoot tomorrow. We have got to take up our position and do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/6-april-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6 April 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","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\/169","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\/1409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}