{"id":7788,"date":"2017-03-24T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T07:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:08:50","slug":"saturday-24-march-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2017\/03\/24\/saturday-24-march-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 24 March 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7788-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Saturday_March_24_1917.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Saturday_March_24_1917.mp3\">http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Saturday_March_24_1917.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Enemy aeroplane painted red shoots down one of our \u2018planes &amp; later on we shoot down one of theirs. The red \u2018plane is manned by a dare-devil Hun.\u00a0 Much shelling &amp; some very near to us.<\/p>\n<p>I go the tour of trenches and tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>42<sup>nd<\/sup> lose 3 men killed &amp; many wounded when covering a working party on crater.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>It is possible that the red aeroplane was flown by Baron Von Richthofen, The Red Baron. There are reported \u201ckills\u201d credited to him in the area during this time \u2013 at Vimy, Oppy, La Neuville, Givenchy, Lens.\u00a0 Draycott names him as the pilot in his memoir.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy aeroplane painted red shoots down one of our \u2018planes &amp; later on we shoot down one of theirs. The red \u2018plane is manned by a dare-devil Hun.\u00a0 Much shelling &amp; some very near to us. I go the tour of trenches and tunnels. 42nd lose 3 men killed &amp; many wounded when covering a [&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":[1562,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-7788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1877","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-german-aeroplanes","9":"tag-mp3","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788","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=7788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7789,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions\/7789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}