{"id":254,"date":"2016-03-20T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=254"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:54:49","slug":"20-march-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/20\/20-march-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"20 March 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I saw a caravan of about a dozen or fifteen camels going through camp soon after breakfast this morning. The general commanding the division, General Lawrence, inspected the horses of the Brigade this morning. At midday we went for a bathe over the canal and went for about a mile into the desert the other side, wading and swimming through the salt lakes we came across. I saw a lot of wild guinea pigs, also some herons, <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips39'>cormorants<\/span> and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips30'>stone curlew<\/span>, also lots of wading birds. I hadn&#8217;t seen some of the sorts before. I am rather sorry we spent so long exploring about as tonight my back is simply burning where the sun got hold of it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This afternoon one of the staff gave a lecture to all the officers on the cooperation of aeroplanes with artillery. There is a biggish aerodrome here somewhere. He seemed to think the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> might be going to have another shot at the canal soon and said we are going to act as a mobile force, and are not going to entrench and wait for them, but are going to move out into the desert, if they are reported to be approaching, and fight a moving battle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips82'>Badcock<\/span> and I went for a ride down the canal towards <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips65'>Ishmalia<\/span> tonight, saw another camel caravan going along the other side of the canal. My little mare was full of beans.<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips30','More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/discoverandenjoynature\/discoverandlearn\/birdguide\/name\/s\/stonecurlew\/\" target=\"_blank\">The RSPB - Stone-curlew<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips39','More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/discoverandenjoynature\/discoverandlearn\/birdguide\/name\/c\/cormorant\/\" target=\"_blank\">The RSPB - Cormorant<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips65','Ismailia<strong> - <\/strong>a city in north east Egypt on the west bank of the Suez Canal'); <\/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>I saw a caravan of about a dozen or fifteen camels going through camp soon after breakfast this morning. The general commanding the division, General Lawrence, inspected the horses of the Brigade this morning. At midday we went for a bathe over the canal and went for about a mile into the desert the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/20\/20-march-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 March 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","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\/254","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\/1408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}