{"id":133,"date":"2014-09-12T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.com\/rsm-beck-diary\/?p=133"},"modified":"2014-09-08T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T11:37:16","slug":"12th-september-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/2014\/09\/12\/12th-september-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"12th September 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No diary entry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the night half the 4<sup>th<\/sup> 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\">Information about troop movements throughout September 1914 is taken from:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\"><em>Twenty Years After \u2013 the Battlefields of 1914-1918 Then &amp; Now, Volume 1<\/em> (1938, edited by Major General Sir Ernest Swinton, published by George Newnes, London)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\">Private R. G. Hill\u2019s memoirs, first published in <em>Everyman at War<\/em> (1930, edited by C.B. Purdom) and available online: <a title=\"Private R. G. Hill Memoirs\" href=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.com\/diaries\/oldcontemptible.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">http:\/\/firstworldwar.com\/diaries\/oldcontemptible.htm <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"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=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}