{"id":334,"date":"2016-06-05T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=334"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:54:56","slug":"5-june-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/05\/5-june-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"5 June 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content entry-content\">\n<div class=\"asset-body\">\n<div>\n<div>The colonel and about six others of the 2nd Scottish Horse, with Major Daniell, Major <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips109'>Jeans<\/span>, and myself, started off soon after five this morning on a reconnaissance for the mobile column we shall form if the chance comes when the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> come along. We had a troop of the Glasgow Yeomanry as escort, but didn&#8217;t see anything.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We went to reconnoitre the ground from Blair&#8217;s Post towards <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span>. We found the going over Saklet El <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span> very treacherous and boggy, in some places the horses went in right up to their bellies, certainly not suitable for guns, but we found a very good camel track round the edge. We went on though Hod El Sofiyia and Ghazlan, till we came to Bir Abu Haura, just a date palm grove, with a brackish well and a good many Bedouin huts made of palm branches and scrub. There were no <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips67'>Bedouins<\/span> there, most of the are fighting with the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span>. The date palms were covered with big clusters of dates, but they were very small and green. They aren&#8217;t ripe here till September I believe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We went on beyond Bir Abu Haura to the top of a small rise from which we had a good view of the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span> oasis, but we didn&#8217;t go down into it as it isn&#8217;t a very healthy spot just at present as all the horses of the Worcester and Gloucester Yeomanry killed on Easter Sunday are still above ground.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We came back by the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span> wells and past Railhead and followed the line to Mahamdiya. They are getting on a tremendous pace with it and it won&#8217;t be many more days before it reaches us here. The one that is being run out along the coast from <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span> is also coming along very quickly and is only about five miles off now.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bathed this afternoon. Quite a rough sea. Digging on the gun emplacement this evening. We haven&#8217;t heard anything official about <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips3'>the naval fight in the North Sea<\/span> yet, but there are a lot of rumours going round.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mail this evening. Some topping snapshots from home of the horses.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am on duty at the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips106'>O.Pip<\/span> tonight.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips3','The Battle of Jutland, fought from 31 May to 1 June 1916. It was the largest naval battle of WWI, involving over 250 ships.'); <\/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('.classtoolTips67','Members of the Bedouin, a semi-nomadic Arab group'); <\/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><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><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips106','Observation Post (OP)'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips107','Located in the Sinai Desert in Egypt. The Battle of Katia took place in April 1916 between British and Ottoman forces.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips109','Major Thomas Kilvington Jeans (ab. 1884-1960), RHA, MC.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The colonel and about six others of the 2nd Scottish Horse, with Major Daniell, Major Jeans, and myself, started off soon after five this morning on a reconnaissance for the mobile column we shall form if the chance comes when the Turks come along. We had a troop of the Glasgow Yeomanry as escort, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/05\/5-june-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 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-334","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\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}