{"id":1407,"date":"1944-11-17T20:06:00","date_gmt":"1944-11-17T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2023-05-12T02:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T02:04:20","slug":"page-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Friday, 17 November [1944]   Littlecote<\/strong><br>Miserable, rainy weather, packed in morning and left for new camp that afternoon. The day we had been waiting for had skipped right up on us.<br>We were happy in spite of the weather. We would have welcomed any change. Even after arrival at the new camp, a mess of mud, water and dirty barracks. We were glad to have made a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, Sunday 18 \u2013 19 November [1944]   <s>Littlecote<\/s>&nbsp;Ramsbury<\/strong><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_1407\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1407-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1407-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">Ramsbury was an airfield used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1942-1949. From here, many soldiers flew from England to continental Europe to participate in the war. After the war, the airfield was removed and the land was restored for farming. \u201cReenactment Weekend in Ramsbury Turns Back Clock.\u201d Accessed April 20, 2014. Thisiswiltshire.co.uk <\/span><br>Spent the week end at Hungerford visiting around, beginning my good byes.&nbsp; I had a lot of friends there by now and knew that I would miss them. They all refused to say good bye, insisting that I would be back again. I drank a lot of Scotch. Talked a blue streak. Played cards and had a helluva time in general.<br>Returned to camp 2300, tired but happy. Hit the sack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday, 20 November [1944]   Ramsbury<\/strong><br>We are busy as bees. Getting in our equipment, putting it together, checking it. We changed our English money to French Francs. 200 French Francs are equal to an English Pound.<br>We are supposed to be ready by Thursday. I guess that is a good thing, I said good bye over the week end.<br>I\u2019d like to visit them all again but don\u2019t think that I will be able to make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, 17 November [1944] LittlecoteMiserable, rainy weather, packed in morning and left for new camp that afternoon. The day we had been waiting for had skipped right up on us.We were happy in spite of the weather. We would have welcomed any change. Even after arrival at the new camp, a mess of mud, water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}