{"id":2092,"date":"2014-12-25T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2016-06-01T15:54:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T22:54:57","slug":"friday-xmas-day-25-december-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2014\/12\/25\/friday-xmas-day-25-december-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Xmas Day 25 December 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2092-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Friday_December_25_1914.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Friday_December_25_1914.mp3\">http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Friday_December_25_1914.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nBombardment ceased. English have taken Lille. Inch of ice on pond on farm yard. Our Christmas breakfast consists of Bully Beef &amp; biscuits &amp; tea.<br \/>\nI received greeting from King George &amp; Queen Mary with photos (of them both).<br \/>\nIn afternoon at 2 pm I go to the 4th Battalion King\u2019s Royal Rifle camp. I have the privilege of being introduced to the Staff Officers &amp; Major Hereward Wake &amp; Colonel Oxley of the Kings Royal Rifles are among them. I shake hands with all the officers &amp; have a good time all round. Have dinner at the Officers\u2019 Mess &amp; tea at the Head Quarters Cook House. I leave at 5 pm for the Princess Patricia\u2019s Canadian Light Infantry camp loaded with meat biscuits (Peak Freans) &amp; other delicacies. There are several crucifixes &amp; shrines at the village of Blaringhem.<br \/>\nThe Canadians have only had Bully beef &amp; biscuits all day &amp; a little bacon at night. No bread of course.<br \/>\nVery light bombarding on the front but the KRR &amp; Ghurkas lost a lot of men in trench taking.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>*KRR-Kings Royal Rifles<\/em><br \/>\n<em> **Ghurkas \u2013 Nepalese military units within the British Indian Army. 200,000 Gurkhas served in the British army over WWI and the Ghurkas fought in a wide variety of countries and battles during the war<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombardment ceased. English have taken Lille. Inch of ice on pond on farm yard. Our Christmas breakfast consists of Bully Beef &amp; biscuits &amp; tea. I received greeting from King George &amp; Queen Mary with photos (of them both). In afternoon at 2 pm I go to the 4th Battalion King\u2019s Royal Rifle camp. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,30],"tags":[615,1667,610,616,613,340,611,609],"class_list":{"0":"post-2092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-45","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-blaringhem","9":"tag-canadian-light-infantry-camp","10":"tag-king-george","11":"tag-krr-ghurkas","12":"tag-major-hereward-wake","13":"tag-mp3","14":"tag-queen-mary","15":"tag-xmas-day","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}