{"id":581,"date":"2016-07-30T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=581"},"modified":"2016-07-24T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:51:35","slug":"30-july-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/07\/30\/30-july-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"30 July 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News came in early this morning from the 158th Brigade Headquarters that the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips105'>Anzac<\/span> patrols which went out this morning towards <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span> had been forced to retire, and Turkish patrols had followed them up to within a mile of redoubts, but <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span>, who was in the F.O.O., didn&#8217;t get a chance to open fire.<\/p>\n<p>Church parade at Brigade H.Q. this morning. Went up to the F.O.O. at midday and was relieved by Kenning at seven o&#8217;clock this morning. The infantry have been hard at work wiring just in front of our F.O.O. all day.<\/p>\n<p>Two monitors\u00a0 were lying off Mahamdiya today, but steamed away in the direction of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips56'>Port Said<\/span> this evening.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to get more fresh water here soon now as they have been fixing up a condensing plant at Mahamdiya, and are going to condense 26 thousand gallons a day. The Essex Battery came up today, they are out of quarantine now, but have had a pretty rough time of it. Fifty odd men down at the same time with <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips32'>paratyphoid<\/span>\u00a0, and two died.<\/p>\n<p>The Leicester Horse Battery came up today.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips32','Similar in appearance to typhoid but caused by different strains of bacteria. Caused by eating contaminated food\/drink, it causes a variety of symptoms and can lead to complications. See http:\/\/patient.info\/health\/typhoid-and-paratyphoid-fever-leaflet'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips56','A busy sea port along the Suez Canal in Egypt which is crucial for exportation. It gained a lot of importance during the start of the twentieth century and is now one of the biggest cities in Egypt.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/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>News came in early this morning from the 158th Brigade Headquarters that the Anzac patrols which went out this morning towards Katia had been forced to retire, and Turkish patrols had followed them up to within a mile of redoubts, but Franklyn, who was in the F.O.O., didn&#8217;t get a chance to open fire. 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