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Left Newcastle for Ramsgate @ 10:25 am.\u00a0\u00a0 Arr. Kings Cross @ 5:15 pm.\u00a0 Motored to Charing Cross.\u00a0 Train for R. leaves 7:15 pm.\u00a0 Party numbers 39 men.<\/p>\n
We change @ Ashford and Minster & arr. Ramsgate 10:30 pm. Full particulars taken then a bath, hospital clothes are issued.\u00a0 Supper & then to bed @ sometime in the morning.\u00a0 Reveille 6 am.\u00a0 Breakfast 7 am dinner 12:30.\u00a0 Germans dropped bombs here on Sunday much damage.<\/p>\n
*Entry is undated in the diary, but reference to Sunday air-raid suggests at least June 24th as the likely date for the entry.<\/em><\/p>\n *Ramsgate gained a reputation as the most bombed seaside town<\/strong> in the First World War, suffering many Zeppelin<\/strong> and Gotha bomber<\/strong> raids and being shelled<\/strong> several times from the sea. Tunnels<\/strong> into the cliff provided civilians with shelter, and in 1917 an air raid shelter was opened at Ellington Girls School<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n In common with other coastal towns, large hotels were taken over to be used as hospitals<\/strong> and convalescent homes<\/strong>, not only for the British Army but also for those of other nationalities. Canadian troops<\/strong> were sent to the Granville Special Hospital<\/strong> and to the Princess Patricia\u2019s Canadian Red Cross Hospital.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" * Left Newcastle for Ramsgate @ 10:25 am.\u00a0\u00a0 Arr. Kings Cross @ 5:15 pm.\u00a0 Motored to Charing Cross.\u00a0 Train for R. leaves 7:15 pm.\u00a0 Party numbers 39 men. We change @ Ashford and Minster & arr. Ramsgate 10:30 pm. Full particulars taken then a bath, hospital clothes are issued.\u00a0 Supper & then to bed @ […]<\/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,"_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":[1935,1936],"class_list":["post-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-1877","category-diary-entries","tag-air-raids","tag-ramsgate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026","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=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8034,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions\/8034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}