{"id":5699,"date":"2016-03-27T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:40:09","slug":"monday-27-march-1916-rain-and-fine-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2016\/03\/27\/monday-27-march-1916-rain-and-fine-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 27 March 1916 \u2013 rain and fine later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5699-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Monday_March_27_1916.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Monday_March_27_1916.mp3\">http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Monday_March_27_1916.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nAbsolutely the most wicked weather last night boys outside all night. Rain snow sleet &amp; driving wind. Hard pounding rifle grenades &amp; trench mortar bombs are sent over in profusion. Hell opens again at 4:30 am by our artillery at Hill 60. A most hideous &amp; frightful roar &amp; noise. A rifle shot can scarce be heard. Aeroplanes very active. Fly low. Our feet are wet and life almost unbearable.<br \/>\nAs I am standing outside the dugout a shrapnel bullet passes my neck and buries itself deep into the sandbag. Again I miss death by a rifle grenade. 3 burst simultaneously near dugout in fire trench. All night there is a horrible hell &amp; din going on.<br \/>\nIt rains all night and the misery \u2013 pitiful as we stand out in it all through the night.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>*<em>Hill 60 \u2013 A heap of soil just south of Ypres in Flanders made from soil removed from a cutting for the Ypres-Comines railway. The hill was a strategic observation point overlooking Ypres and Zillebeke making it a valuable target and thus the area of multiple battles throughout the duration of the war.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5702\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hill60.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5702\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-JwtjLHxd\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5702\" class=\"wp-image-5702 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hill60.jpg\" alt=\"hill60\" width=\"624\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hill60.jpg 624w, https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hill60-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Hill 60, 1915&#8221; by E Wyrall &#8211; Wyrall, E. (1921) The History of the Second Division, 1914\u20131918 Vol I (N &amp; M Press 2002 ed.), London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Retrieved on 13 November 2013. ISBN: 1-84342-207-7. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons &#8211; http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hill_60,_1915.jpg#mediaviewer\/File:Hill_60,_1915.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely the most wicked weather last night boys outside all night. Rain snow sleet &amp; driving wind. Hard pounding rifle grenades &amp; trench mortar bombs are sent over in profusion. Hell opens again at 4:30 am by our artillery at Hill 60. A most hideous &amp; frightful roar &amp; noise. 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