{"id":426,"date":"2016-06-25T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=426"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T12:50:32","slug":"25-june-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/25\/25-june-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"25 June 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stood by at three this morning and dismissed at four thirty. A quiet day.<\/p>\n<p>A report was sent in to us tonight that the enemy forces at Bir El Mazar have been greatly increased. It is an oasis about forty miles east of us and the authorities are rather expecting the enemy to try a reconnaissance in force shortly, so we may have an attack soon. But I think they will find they are up against it when they come here as, besides our battery, there are fifteen machine guns and seventeen Lewis guns, while the brigade at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips97'>Romani<\/span> have got the Ross mountain battery and the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips105'>Anzac<\/span> division.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> will be able to bring anything heavier than mountain guns against us.<\/p>\n<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('.classtoolTips105','Term used to describe\u00a0soldiers\u00a0in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stood by at three this morning and dismissed at four thirty. A quiet day. A report was sent in to us tonight that the enemy forces at Bir El Mazar have been greatly increased. It is an oasis about forty miles east of us and the authorities are rather expecting the enemy to try a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/25\/25-june-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">25 June 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-426","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\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}