{"id":35,"date":"2016-02-24T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=35"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:44:52","slug":"24-february-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/02\/24\/24-february-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"24 February 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Left Leicester at 9 a.m. with 20 men to go overseas and join up with the battery who sailed last Friday. Sailed from <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips54'>Avonmouth<\/span> at 10 p.m. in the &#8220;<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips102'>Karoa<\/span>&#8221;, 850 men on board mostly A.S.C. and artillery, 330 mules, and motor transport etc.<\/p>\n<p>Been snowing all day so is pretty cold. Nearly all the crew on board <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips6'>are blacks, mostly Indians.<\/span> <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips110'>Gieve<\/span> waistcoat handy all ready for emergencies.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips6','A large number of colonial men, or \\'Imperial Garrisons\\' fought in the first world war, including a British West Indies regiment. Several of these battalions were deployed to Egypt, which may have been the men Dick is talking about. See more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwm.org.uk\/history\/the-story-of-the-british-west-indies-regiment-in-the-first-world-war\">British West Indies regiment in the First World War<\/a><br\/><br\/>&nbsp;'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips54','<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips54'>Avonmouth<\/span> Docks in Bristol was a major port used in the war. See more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p01wqgxb\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips54'>Avonmouth<\/span> Docks\u00a0and the Great War<\/a>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips102','A passenger cargo ship requisitioned by the Admiralty as a troop transport in 1915'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips110','A \\'Gieve\\' or \\'Gieve Waistcoat\\' means a life jacket.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Left Leicester at 9 a.m. with 20 men to go overseas and join up with the battery who sailed last Friday. Sailed from Avonmouth at 10 p.m. in the &#8220;Karoa&#8221;, 850 men on board mostly A.S.C. and artillery, 330 mules, and motor transport etc. Been snowing all day so is pretty cold. Nearly all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/02\/24\/24-february-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 February 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","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\/35","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\/1407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}