No diary entry.
After another day of marching in the rain the troops moved towards the River Aisne. It was a 30 mile march with little or no food for the troops for 24 hours.
During the night half the 4th Division had crossed the river at Venizel in single file over a half destroyed viaduct and, once across, the Brigade rushed the German outposts and was soon on the ridge above in driving rain and a howling gale.
Information about troop movements throughout September 1914 is taken from:
- Twenty Years After – the Battlefields of 1914-1918 Then & Now, Volume 1 (1938, edited by Major General Sir Ernest Swinton, published by George Newnes, London)
- Private R. G. Hill’s memoirs, first published in Everyman at War (1930, edited by C.B. Purdom) and available online: http://firstworldwar.com/diaries/oldcontemptible.htm