{"id":89,"date":"2022-02-19T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T08:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelairdofglencairn.wordpress.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2025-09-12T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:01:34","slug":"sapper-work-digging-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Sapper work &#8211; Digging In!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"viewer-foo\">A few posts ago I mentioned that I was trying to research into a small issue (slight bit of Scottish understatement there) that I had with the the Royal Engineers official history where it relates to the activities of the RE Mounted Units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-5sspg\">Its been an interesting take on things and it has been worth digging in to the whole activities and the item in the official history, while given as a statement for the whole war may actually relate to an actual snapshot in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-3g9p4\">As with all of these types of things, it leads you further and further in the research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-dk8aq\">So are we making headway? Yes we are but it does lead to more questions. which is why I enjoy doing this type of thing, it is also a good diversion from my work and allows me to focus on other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-4609d\">There will be more to come on this as things progress&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"532\" height=\"737\" src=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/622fa-133a36_fc38164bc6304eb2a828550d41bcc25amv2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/622fa-133a36_fc38164bc6304eb2a828550d41bcc25amv2.png 532w, https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/622fa-133a36_fc38164bc6304eb2a828550d41bcc25amv2-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few posts ago I mentioned that I was trying to research into a small&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[26,35,38,61,63,68],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin","category-history","category-personal-takes","tag-cavalry","tag-field-tp-re","tag-great-war","tag-re","tag-re-field-sqn","tag-royal-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1537,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/1537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsebacksapper.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}