{"id":54,"date":"2016-04-19T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-04-19T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:02:41","slug":"19-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/19\/19-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"19 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips33'>Orderly dog<\/span> today. <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips57'>Gun drill<\/span> six to eight, skeleton work just with the b&#8212;, but no guns on wagons.<\/p>\n<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span> and I have got a few days leave, so we started for Cairo by the 7:30 train from <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> this evening. Had dinner in the train. The Cairo line leaves the canal from <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips52'>Ishmailia<\/span>. We arrived in Cairo at midnight and have taken a room at Shepheards Hotel.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Army slang for and orderly corporal, orderly sergeant, or orderly officer.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips52','A city in the North-East of Egypt - see information: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ismailia\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ismailia <\/a>'); <\/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('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orderly dog today. Gun drill six to eight, skeleton work just with the b&#8212;, but no guns on wagons. Franklyn and I have got a few days leave, so we started for Cairo by the 7:30 train from Kantara this evening. Had dinner in the train. The Cairo line leaves the canal from Ishmailia. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/19\/19-april-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">19 April 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","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\/54","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\/1409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}