{"id":344,"date":"2016-06-10T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=344"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:58:37","slug":"10-june-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/10\/10-june-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"10 June 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Battery <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips57'>Gun drill<\/span> this morning. Bathed about midday. The colonel arrived for lunch; he has come up from <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> for a day or two.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Practicing for night firing this evening with lamp signalling.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Got a little news today: the Russians seem to be giving the Austrians a bit of a dressing down in the Pripet Marshes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A small mail in tonight &#8211; heard from Bill Broadhurst.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The intelligence report tonight says the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips66'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips72'>El Arish<\/span><\/span> have been further reinforced by two &#8216;taburs&#8217; (about 2000) of Afghan troops. I wonder who they will get for us next?<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips57','More info: <a href=\"http:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/British-Rifle-Regiment-Drill.php\">http:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/British-Rifle-Regiment-Drill.php <\/a>'); <\/script><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('.classtoolTips79','Al Qantarah El Sharqiyya \u2013 a city in north east Egypt on the eastern side of the Suez Canal'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips85','More commonly known as Al Quantarah El Sharqiyya, <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> is around 100 miles from Cairo. Major depot and headquarters during WW1. It is also the place where Richard is buried.<br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/54500\/KANTARA%20WAR%20MEMORIAL%20CEMETERY\">http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/54500\/<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span>%20WAR%20MEMORIAL%20CEMETERY <\/a>'); <\/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>Battery Gun drill this morning. Bathed about midday. The colonel arrived for lunch; he has come up from Kantara for a day or two. Practicing for night firing this evening with lamp signalling. Got a little news today: the Russians seem to be giving the Austrians a bit of a dressing down in the Pripet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/10\/10-june-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 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-344","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\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}