{"id":338,"date":"2016-06-07T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=338"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:55:38","slug":"7-june-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/07\/7-june-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"7 June 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At work at the guns this morning; bathed about midday. At two thirty General Koe, the brigade major, and Major <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips109'>Jeans<\/span>, <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span>, and myself, rode out on a reconnaissance. We were escorted by a troop of the Glasgow Yeomanry. We were reconnoitring the ground for the flying column; I only hope we get the chance of being able to use one. We rode about five miles due East of this position, a great deal of it through big dry gypsum lakes, then we turned and went into Bir Abu Haura from the northeast and then back here by way of Blair&#8217;s Post.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This morning a large flock of fifty goats was captured by a yeomanry patrol on the shore about half a mile in front of our entanglements, but they could find no sign of anyone with them. They brought the flock in, and the general thinks it is the forerunner of the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span>&#8217; attack, as they send on large flocks for supplies under the care of would-be shepherds who are really spies, having the excuse that they are shepherds if they are found. I only wish the patrol had got hold of those with this flock; they are probably back in <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips66'>El Arish<\/span> with a good deal too much information about our position.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A very cheering official report has come in tonight, if it is true, that the Russians have captured thirty thousand <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> and are within six miles of Baghdad.<\/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('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips72','A city in northern Egypt'); <\/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('.classtoolTips109','Major Thomas Kilvington Jeans (ab. 1884-1960), RHA, MC.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work at the guns this morning; bathed about midday. At two thirty General Koe, the brigade major, and Major Jeans, Franklyn, and myself, rode out on a reconnaissance. We were escorted by a troop of the Glasgow Yeomanry. We were reconnoitring the ground for the flying column; I only hope we get the chance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/07\/7-june-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 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-338","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\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}