{"id":179,"date":"2016-04-30T17:10:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=179"},"modified":"2016-04-30T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:10:19","slug":"11-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/11-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"11 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips33'>Orderly dog<\/span> today. <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips81'>Elliott<\/span> and I went over with the teams and fetched the guns over the side of the canal near the camp. Bathed about eleven o&#8217;clock. We went and had a look at the fox earth which we dug at last night. This morning we could see where the old dog fox had come round outside and opened up one of the holes and there were a lot of pad marks but it was impossible to tell whether the vixen had brought the cubs out or not, so we smoothed the sand down again tonight and shall see if there are any fresh marks in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Powell and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span> went into <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span>\u00a0today and Powell met Gen. Horne there, who is sailing for France tonight. He told him that two divisions are leaving the canal for France. The next one to go will be the 11th which is waiting till they see how things are going in <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips35'>Mesopotamia<\/span>\u00a0; and the Australians are coming out to hold this frontier which our division is responsible for at present, so then we shall go to France.<\/p>\n<p>Three transports of Russians went down the canal yesterday from Vladivostok, and are on their way to\u00a0Salonika.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a heavy storm of rain just as we finished bathing this morning, it lasted about a quarter of an hour. The divisional band played this evening and we were told to dance when they played &#8220;Destiny&#8221;.<\/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('.classtoolTips35','The blanket term for the river systems around Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips56','A busy sea port along the Suez Canal in Egypt which is crucial for exportation. It gained a lot of importance during the start of the twentieth century and is now one of the biggest cities in Egypt.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips73','A Greek port; now Thessaloniki. The allied forces made a base here to arm themselves against Bulgaria (who were allied with Germany). This was known as the Salonika Front (also Macedonian Front).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips81','Captain Newlyn Mason Elliott (1890-1969).'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orderly dog today. Elliott and I went over with the teams and fetched the guns over the side of the canal near the camp. Bathed about eleven o&#8217;clock. We went and had a look at the fox earth which we dug at last night. 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