{"id":191,"date":"2016-04-30T17:21:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=191"},"modified":"2016-04-30T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:21:01","slug":"17-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/17-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"17 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips57'>Gun drill<\/span> from six till 7:30 this morning, then stables etc. Bathed about midday, the water was lovely. It&#8217;s been very hot today, 90 degrees in the shade, but they say we shall get up to 110 degrees in the shade later.<\/p>\n<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips82'>Badcock<\/span> came back from Cairo this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips57'>Gun drill<\/span> from five till six this evening. We bathed again at 7:15 this evening, there was a very bright moon and the water was as warm as toast.<\/p>\n<p>We hear one of our advance posts of Australian Light Horse at Sinai, east of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips52'>Ishmailia<\/span>, has scuppered about sixty <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> and taken a lot of stores.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian Mail says that the sandstorm we had on Thursday was the worst there has been for sixty years!<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips52','A city in the North-East of Egypt - see information: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ismailia\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ismailia <\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips57','More info: <a href=\"http:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/British-Rifle-Regiment-Drill.php\">http:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/British-Rifle-Regiment-Drill.php <\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips82','Richard Dorian Badcock (1892-1965), M.C. \u00a0Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in August 1914, he later commanded the 1\/1st Hampshire Battery as acting Major.'); <\/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>Gun drill from six till 7:30 this morning, then stables etc. Bathed about midday, the water was lovely. It&#8217;s been very hot today, 90 degrees in the shade, but they say we shall get up to 110 degrees in the shade later. Badcock came back from Cairo this afternoon. Gun drill from five till six &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/30\/17-april-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">17 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-191","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\/191","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=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}