{"id":762,"date":"2015-07-08T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.com\/rsm-beck-diary\/?p=762"},"modified":"2015-06-26T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T14:09:29","slug":"8th-july-canal-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/2015\/07\/08\/8th-july-canal-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"8th July \u2013 CANAL BANK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D Coy heavily shelled in morning. 11<sup>th<\/sup> Brigade heavily engaged all day, fighting mostly with hand grenades. 1 Platoon of B Coy sent up to re-inforce D Coy whose bombers were sent up to front line. At 9.30 pm \u201cB\u201d Coy relieved D Coy in Support, \u201cA\u201d Coy were put in Reserve at HULL\u2019S FARM. <!--more-->To 11<sup>th<\/sup> Brigade.heavily engaged all day, fighting mostly with hand grenades.T [?] Platoon of B Coy sent up to reinforce D Coy whose bombers were sent up to front line.. At 9.30 pm \u2018B\u2019Coy relieved D Coy in support, A Coy were put in Reserve at HULL\u2019S FARM to 11<sup>th<\/sup> Brigade. C &amp; D Copys were relieved by 147<sup>th<\/sup> Brigade &amp; went into Bivouac at Elverdinghe Chateau.<\/p>\n<p>Casualties 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Lieut Lewis &amp; J.C.Johnson killed. 8 other ranks killed, 54 wounded. 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Lieut Bennett wounded (shell shock). Major Forster &amp; Major Bannerman rejoined Battalion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D Coy heavily shelled in morning. 11th Brigade heavily engaged all day, fighting mostly with hand grenades. 1 Platoon of B Coy sent up to re-inforce D Coy whose bombers were sent up to front line. At 9.30 pm \u201cB\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/2015\/07\/08\/8th-july-canal-bank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}