{"id":350,"date":"2016-06-13T17:57:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T16:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=350"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:58:52","slug":"13-june-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/13\/13-june-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"13 June 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Section <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips57'>Gun drill<\/span> this morning, followed by a bathe. A very hot day today and no sea breeze. Section <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips57'>Gun drill<\/span> this evening. I walked down by the line tonight; they are getting on at a tremendous pace and it&#8217;s all ready for laying the lines. The light railway round the coast from <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span> (32 miles) has reached here too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Australians got back from a reconnaissance today with two <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span>. They came on a patrol of eight of them, but their trotting camels streaked away from the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips105'>Anzac<\/span> horses, and they only managed to wing these two.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Worrall went back to <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> today.<\/div>\n<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('.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('.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><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips105','Term used to describe\u00a0soldiers\u00a0in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section Gun drill this morning, followed by a bathe. A very hot day today and no sea breeze. Section Gun drill this evening. I walked down by the line tonight; they are getting on at a tremendous pace and it&#8217;s all ready for laying the lines. The light railway round the coast from Port Said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/13\/13-june-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">13 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-350","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\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}