{"id":577,"date":"2016-07-28T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=577"},"modified":"2016-07-24T13:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:49:26","slug":"28-july-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/07\/28\/28-july-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"28 July 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy planes came over about seven thirty this morning, but no mountain battery to open fire on her. News came in this morning that the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> were shelling Hill 100, and later they were reported to be advancing in force on <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span> and the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips95'>Anzacs<\/span> falling back.<\/p>\n<p>Stood by at the guns for the rest of the day, but I think they won&#8217;t attack before dawn tomorrow. We&#8217;ve made a new F.O.O. which commands a much better view of our zone. We are in readiness now to turn out a mobile column. They are pretty certain to send one out tomorrow I should think, if the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> entrench at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span> is back from hospital, but the major doesn&#8217;t think he is fit enough to go out, so I shall be taking the right section into action tomorrow if we go out and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span> shows no signs of being fitter.<\/p>\n<p>The men are as keen as mustard and longing to get out at the Turk. I am just off to the F.O.O.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips95','Term used to describe soldiers\u00a0in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI'); <\/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><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips105','Term used to describe\u00a0soldiers\u00a0in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during WWI'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips107','Located in the Sinai Desert in Egypt. The Battle of Katia took place in April 1916 between British and Ottoman forces.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy planes came over about seven thirty this morning, but no mountain battery to open fire on her. News came in this morning that the Turks were shelling Hill 100, and later they were reported to be advancing in force on Katia and the Anzacs falling back. 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