{"id":575,"date":"2016-07-27T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=575"},"modified":"2016-07-24T13:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:48:42","slug":"27-july-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/07\/27\/27-july-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"27 July 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy plane over about seven thirty this morning. The mountain battery did some pretty shooting but their guns weren&#8217;t made for anti-aircraft. They have left for <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips73'>Salonika<\/span> today and they are going to send us some proper &#8220;archies\u00a0&#8221; up here, so we may bring one of those Fokkers down before long.<\/p>\n<p>Got the detail out for the whole mobile column today; we shall be going out with the 156 Brigade when the stunt comes off. At present I am in charge of the right section but am very much afraid I shan&#8217;t take them into action as <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span> will have in all probability got over his indisposition by the time our <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips96'>strafe<\/span> comes off. But still, you never know your luck.<\/p>\n<p>Situation unchanged today. I am in charge of the telephone communication between the battery and F.O.O. tonight.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips73','A Greek port; now Thessaloniki. The allied forces made a base here to arm themselves against Bulgaria (who were allied with Germany). This was known as the Salonika Front (also Macedonian Front).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips96','Strafing is the practice of using low-flying aircraft to attack targets on the ground'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy plane over about seven thirty this morning. The mountain battery did some pretty shooting but their guns weren&#8217;t made for anti-aircraft. They have left for Salonika today and they are going to send us some proper &#8220;archies\u00a0&#8221; up here, so we may bring one of those Fokkers down before long. Got the detail out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/07\/27\/27-july-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">27 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-575","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\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}