{"id":8651,"date":"2018-07-11T00:17:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T07:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2018-07-07T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T23:24:35","slug":"thursday-11-july-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/2018\/07\/11\/thursday-11-july-1918\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 11 July 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8651-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Thursday_July_11_1918.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Thursday_July_11_1918.mp3\">http:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Thursday_July_11_1918.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Tables turned again.\u00a0 Sent for to see Med. Officer who states \u201cWe will have to send you to Hospital in order to ascertain the cause of your disease\u201d.\u00a0 This means more waste of time.\u00a0 Spirits are now down to zero as there seems to be nothing but bubbles and froth in this cursed army.\u00a0 No use trying to make assurances &amp; arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>(Major McCudden, VC, airman, killed, 52 Huns downed by him)<\/p>\n<p><em>*James Thomas Byford McCudden<\/em> <em>VC<\/em><em>, <\/em><em>DSO<\/em><em> &amp; <\/em><em>Bar<\/em><em>, <\/em><em>MC<\/em><em> &amp; Bar, <\/em><em>MM<\/em><em> (28 March 1895 \u2013 9 July 1918) was an English <\/em><em>flying ace<\/em><em> of the <\/em><em>First World War<\/em><em> and among the most highly decorated airmen in <\/em><em>British military history<\/em><em>. \u00a0At his death he had achieved 57 aerial victories, placing him <\/em><em>seventh on the list<\/em><em> of the war&#8217;s most successful aces. On 9 July 1918 McCudden was killed in a flying accident when his aircraft crashed following an engine fault. His rank at the time of his death was <\/em><em>major<\/em><em>, a significant achievement for a man who had begun his career in the RFC as an <\/em><em>air mechanic<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tables turned again.\u00a0 Sent for to see Med. Officer who states \u201cWe will have to send you to Hospital in order to ascertain the cause of your disease\u201d.\u00a0 This means more waste of time.\u00a0 Spirits are now down to zero as there seems to be nothing but bubbles and froth in this cursed army.\u00a0 No [&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":[1884,30],"tags":[1974,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-8651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1884","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-james-thomas-byford-mccudden","9":"tag-mp3","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","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=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}