{"id":262,"date":"2016-03-24T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=262"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:56:23","slug":"24-march-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/24\/24-march-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"24 March 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content entry-content\">\n<div class=\"asset-body\">A lovely sunrise this morning and it began to get hot very early. General Murray, <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips1'>G.O.C. of the Med. Expeditionary Force<\/span>, and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips9'>the Prince of Wales<\/span>, inspected the division this morning, with the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips27'>Mysore Lancers<\/span> as escort. It was pretty hot work for us. This afternoon they came and inspected the various camps of the division. They came round ours at about two thirty, and seemed very satisfied with everything, and thought the horses were looking fit. A light breeze sprang up in the evening.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips1','General officer commanding of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force \u2013 the MEF was part of the British Army during WWI and commanded all Allied forces at Gallipoli and Salonika'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips9','Prince Edward (1894- 1972), eldest son of George V. Later became king as Edward VIII from January to December 1936.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips27','A regiment of lancers from Mysore. The Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade was formed from Imperial Service Troops from a number of Indian Princely States, including Mysore'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely sunrise this morning and it began to get hot very early. General Murray, G.O.C. of the Med. Expeditionary Force, and the Prince of Wales, inspected the division this morning, with the Mysore Lancers as escort. It was pretty hot work for us. This afternoon they came and inspected the various camps of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/24\/24-march-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 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-262","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\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}