{"id":82,"date":"2016-04-26T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=82"},"modified":"2016-04-26T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:05:16","slug":"27-april-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/26\/27-april-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"27 April 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a wildly exciting day; I was busy all the morning and afternoon with two beams and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips36'>G.S wagons<\/span>, and I got the list of our supplies over to our own men&#8217;s camp. We had a bathe at midday and rigged up a high dive with some old barrels, about eleven feet high.<\/p>\n<p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips109'>Jeans<\/span> rode over to see the remnant of the Worcester Yeomanry today, they have only got 1 officer and 36 men left out of the whole regiment. They say they were completely surprised and outnumbered; the officer&#8217;s report from divisional headquarters tonight says that the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips103'>Turks<\/span> were about four thousand strong, inclusive of one thousand Germans. They had a good many guns and four Fokker aeroplanes with them. I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised if this stops us going to France for some time, if not indefinitely.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips36','General service wagons; used to carry weapons, food, etc'); <\/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('.classtoolTips109','Major Thomas Kilvington Jeans (ab. 1884-1960), RHA, MC.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a wildly exciting day; I was busy all the morning and afternoon with two beams and G.S wagons, and I got the list of our supplies over to our own men&#8217;s camp. We had a bathe at midday and rigged up a high dive with some old barrels, about eleven feet high. Jeans rode &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/04\/26\/27-april-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">27 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-82","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\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}