{"id":440,"date":"2016-08-02T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=440"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T13:16:12","slug":"2-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/08\/02\/2-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"2 August 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was relieved by <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips82'>Badcock<\/span> at eight o&#8217;clock this morning. Our monitors opened fire on Oghratina about nine o&#8217;clock this morning. An enemy plane came over about 10 o&#8217;clock, but didn&#8217;t bomb us.<\/p>\n<p>An enemy plane came over this evening; the monitors at Mahemdiya opened fire with their &#8216;archies&#8217; and an old &#8216;how&#8217; here tried a round or two, but without effect. Two of our planes went out towards Oghratina this evening and we could clearly see the German &#8216;archies&#8217; making quite good practice at them. It is pretty disgraceful that we should have allowed the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> to bring up anti aircraft guns, and not have any here ourselves.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips82','Richard Dorian Badcock (1892-1965), M.C. \u00a0Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in August 1914, he later commanded the 1\/1st Hampshire Battery as acting Major.'); <\/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>I was relieved by Badcock at eight o&#8217;clock this morning. Our monitors opened fire on Oghratina about nine o&#8217;clock this morning. An enemy plane came over about 10 o&#8217;clock, but didn&#8217;t bomb us. An enemy plane came over this evening; the monitors at Mahemdiya opened fire with their &#8216;archies&#8217; and an old &#8216;how&#8217; here tried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/08\/02\/2-august-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 August 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-440","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\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}