{"id":571,"date":"2016-07-25T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=571"},"modified":"2016-07-24T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:47:00","slug":"25-july-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/07\/25\/25-july-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"25 July 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kept in communication with the battery during the night. I don&#8217;t think the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> will try a frontal attack now, we are getting too strong. Another troop train in this morning early.<\/p>\n<p>About seven thirty an enemy plane came over, followed by a second at about eight o&#8217;clock. The mountain battery and several machine guns opened on them but without result. About ten o&#8217;clock a third Turkish plane came over, and was greeted with the customary ineffective fusillade. She dropped a message with long red, white and blue streamers attached to it, saying that they found it hard to distinguish our hospital tents and would they be more clearly marked in the future. They evidently mean to have a bombing <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips96'>strafe<\/span>. The old Turk is quite a gentleman.<\/p>\n<p>Another troop train this evening. We&#8217;ve sent back about twenty of our poorest horses to <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips79'><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips85'>Kantara<\/span><\/span> and have got mules up from the brigade ammunition column to take their place &#8211; great whackers, some of them seventeen hands.<\/p>\n<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('.classtoolTips96','Strafing is the practice of using low-flying aircraft to attack targets on the ground'); <\/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>Kept in communication with the battery during the night. I don&#8217;t think the Turks will try a frontal attack now, we are getting too strong. Another troop train in this morning early. About seven thirty an enemy plane came over, followed by a second at about eight o&#8217;clock. The mountain battery and several machine guns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/07\/25\/25-july-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">25 July 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-571","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\/571","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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}