{"id":99,"date":"2016-05-04T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=99"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:18:59","slug":"4-may-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/04\/4-may-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"4 May 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our shoot began at seven o&#8217;clock this morning. <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips82'>Badcock<\/span>, <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span>, and I were the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips83'>F.O.O.s<\/span> and we each took on a target and fired the battery from there. The General was very pleased with the shoot, and Col. Robertson congratulated <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips109'>Jeans<\/span> on the shooting and the steadiness and fine discipline of the men &#8211; so we all feel several inches taller. I had a topping bathe at midday. This evening the battery piscatorial society (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips81'>Elliott<\/span> and <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips68'>Franklyn<\/span>) brought in three good bass, the smallest weighing about a pound.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips68','Major Alan Philip Franklyn (1893-1986).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips81','Captain Newlyn Mason Elliott (1890-1969).'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips82','Richard Dorian Badcock (1892-1965), M.C. \u00a0Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in August 1914, he later commanded the 1\/1st Hampshire Battery as acting Major.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips83','Forward Observation Officers who acted on behalf of the battery commander.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips109','Major Thomas Kilvington Jeans (ab. 1884-1960), RHA, MC.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our shoot began at seven o&#8217;clock this morning. Badcock, Franklyn, and I were the F.O.O.s and we each took on a target and fired the battery from there. The General was very pleased with the shoot, and Col. Robertson congratulated Jeans on the shooting and the steadiness and fine discipline of the men &#8211; so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/05\/04\/4-may-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4 May 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","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\/99","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\/1410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}