{"id":430,"date":"2016-06-27T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=430"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:52:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T12:52:14","slug":"27-june-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/27\/27-june-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"27 June 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stood by before dawn as usual, dismissed at four thirty.<\/p>\n<p>At six thirty our old friend the white raider appeared, flying very high. He circled round a bit and flew off in the direction of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span>, but I don&#8217;t think he would have got so far as he was back again within 20 minutes flying much lower, and looked very pretty with the sun on him &#8211; much more graceful lines than our machines too. He was just circling over us when to our great delight we saw one of our machines coming from the direction of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span> and flying about the same height as the raider. As soon as the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips104'>Boche<\/span> saw him he turned tail and there was a thrilling chase right over the camp. Our machine seemed to catch up a bit and then the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips104'>Boche<\/span> opened fire on him with his machine gun and it looked as if our own plane was hit, as he turned off at once and went away over the sea towards <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span>. The raider disappeared too, but about ten minutes later came back again much higher, finished his reconnaissance, and cleared off.<\/p>\n<p>Bathed this morning, but the water was too hot for pleasure.<\/p>\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('.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('.classtoolTips104','An offensive term for Germans used during WWI, especially by the French'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stood by before dawn as usual, dismissed at four thirty. At six thirty our old friend the white raider appeared, flying very high. He circled round a bit and flew off in the direction of Kantara, but I don&#8217;t think he would have got so far as he was back again within 20 minutes flying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/06\/27\/27-june-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">27 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-430","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\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}