{"id":330,"date":"2016-06-03T17:54:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=330"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:54:11","slug":"3-june-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/03\/3-june-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"3 June 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Stood by before dawn and dismissed about five o&#8217;clock. After breakfast, I was very busy putting some 2 hundred rounds of ammunition, which came last night, into the gun <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips87'>Limbers<\/span> and 1st line wagons, which we had empted into the ammunition dugouts at the gun emplacements.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bathed about midday &#8211; quite rough this morning, so had good fun with the breakers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finding mangos with the one man range finder most of the evening.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Intelligence bulletin tonight reports Turkish, German, and Austrian troops concentrating at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips66'>El Arish<\/span>. The 155th Infantry Brigade began arriving at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span> tonight, I think they mean to have one or two divisions out here eventually.<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips66','Arish or Al-Arish - the capital and largest city of North Sinai, one of the governorates of Egypt'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips72','A city in northern Egypt'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips87','A two-wheeled cart; designed to pull along artillery.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips97','See information:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.1914-1918.net\/romani.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.1914-1918.net\/<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span>.html<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips99','A town in Egypt. \u00a0A large battle on the same name, the Battle of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span>, which was an attack by the Central Powers on the Suez Canal, took place between 3 and 5 August 1916. This was the battle in which Dick tragically lost his life.<br\/><br\/>&nbsp;'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stood by before dawn and dismissed about five o&#8217;clock. After breakfast, I was very busy putting some 2 hundred rounds of ammunition, which came last night, into the gun Limbers and 1st line wagons, which we had empted into the ammunition dugouts at the gun emplacements. Bathed about midday &#8211; quite rough this morning, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/03\/3-june-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3 June 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-330","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\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}