{"id":7700,"date":"2017-02-15T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=7700"},"modified":"2017-02-02T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:41:01","slug":"thursday-15-february-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2017\/02\/15\/thursday-15-february-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 15 February 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stay all night at Bois d\u2019Alleux, Mount St. Eloy. The boys are given an extra ration of rum &amp; &#8211; Oh! be joyful.<\/p>\n<p>At 8 am I start out on bike for Division near Bruay. Meet Cpl. Harper &amp; have dinner @ Houdain &amp; later \u2013 tea in Bruay.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Introduced in the winter of 1914, the rum ration was initially given to soldiers to combat the chill and damp of the trenches. In the front line, rum was issued twice a day &#8211; at dawn and at dusk. A rum jar held 1 gallon &#8211; enough for 64 men. Each man got approximately one third of a pint each week. On the side of the jar were stamped the intiials <strong>&#8220;S.R.D.&#8221;<\/strong> thought to stand for<strong> \u201cService Rations Depot\u201d<\/strong> or<strong> \u201cService Reserve Depot\u201d<\/strong>. Soldiers however, said they stood for <strong>\u201cSeldom Reaches Destination\u201d, \u201cSoon Runs Dry\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201dSeldom Rarely Delivers\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay all night at Bois d\u2019Alleux, Mount St. Eloy. The boys are given an extra ration of rum &amp; &#8211; Oh! be joyful. At 8 am I start out on bike for Division near Bruay. Meet Cpl. Harper &amp; have dinner @ Houdain &amp; later \u2013 tea in Bruay. *Introduced in the winter of 1914, [&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":[1877,30],"tags":[1902,1903],"class_list":{"0":"post-7700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1877","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-mount-st-eloy","9":"tag-rum-rations","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700","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=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}