{"id":71,"date":"2016-04-24T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=71"},"modified":"2016-04-24T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T10:31:36","slug":"24-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/24\/24-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"24 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up early, Powell and Kenning rode over this morning. The batteries had just been bivouacking on the east bank of the canal. About five thousand New Zealand and Australian Cavalry have been pouring through on their way to <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span>. The latest report we&#8217;ve got is that <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span> is\u00a0completely burnt and the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> have annihilated two squadrons of the Worcester Yeomanry, and the Gloucester and Warwickshire Yeomanry who were also at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span> have been badly cut up.\u00a0Wounded men pouring in most of the morning and several lots of Turkish prisoners. Our casualties up to this morning were reckoned at 300 and 7 dead, and 430 wounded <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> have been found (at Duedar, a post held by the 7th Royal Scots) between us and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I was busy all day striking the camp and sending it over to the East Bank.<\/p>\n<p>I heard this afternoon that our battery has been asked to push on to Road End, which is the place where the engineers have got to with the road to <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips107'>Katia<\/span>. I wonder if they will come into action at all; I do hope I can get on to them tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of colonial troops have been coming in here all day. I had a bathe at midday and busy striking tents and loading wagons for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips21','Also referred to as the Affair of Qatia. The British took hold of the area in April but the battle was the prelude to the Battle of Romani in August 1916.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips84','A military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters.'); <\/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('.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>Up early, Powell and Kenning rode over this morning. The batteries had just been bivouacking on the east bank of the canal. About five thousand New Zealand and Australian Cavalry have been pouring through on their way to Katia. The latest report we&#8217;ve got is that Katia is\u00a0completely burnt and the Turks have annihilated two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/24\/24-april-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24 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-71","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\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}