{"id":7622,"date":"2017-01-31T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T08:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:17:21","slug":"wednesday-31-january-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2017\/01\/31\/wednesday-31-january-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 31 January 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7622-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wednesday_January_31_1917.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wednesday_January_31_1917.mp3\">http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wednesday_January_31_1917.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Enemy active in morning. At noon I go up to O.P.\u2019s to observe the fire of our 9.2\u201d on Prinz Arnolf Graben and other objects.\u00a0 The enemy retaliated with the most terrible hell of a bombardment.\u00a0 We had to take cover not before we had made good observations.\u00a0 I called on P.P.s Regtl. Sergt. M. and rec&#8217;d a copy of Regtl. Order containing my \u201cMentioned in Dispatches\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>O.P.\u2019s\u2026Observation Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*Prinz Arnolf Graben was a German tunnel, one of many dug by both sides at Vimy Ridge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*O.P. Trees ~ Built using steel and wrought iron, these are no normal trees. They are camouflaged weapons of war used to devastating effect during World War I on the Western Front. The bizarre fake tree observation posts were built to spy on the enemy after switching them under cover of darkness with real battle-scarred stumps left in no-man&#8217;s land. The ideal tree was dead and often it was bomb blasted. The photographs and sketches were then sent to a workshop where artists constructed an artificial tree of hollow steel cylinders. It contained an internal scaffolding for reinforcement, to allow a sniper or observer to ascend within the structure. Then, under the cover of night, the team cut down the authentic tree and dug a hole in the place of its roots, in which they placed the O.P. Tree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7659\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/C_pg9_img39-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7661 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pg9_img39_text-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pg9_img39_text-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pg9_img39_text.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy active in morning. At noon I go up to O.P.\u2019s to observe the fire of our 9.2\u201d on Prinz Arnolf Graben and other objects.\u00a0 The enemy retaliated with the most terrible hell of a bombardment.\u00a0 We had to take cover not before we had made good observations.\u00a0 I called on P.P.s Regtl. Sergt. M. 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