{"id":87,"date":"2014-09-01T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.com\/rsm-beck-diary\/?p=87"},"modified":"2014-09-11T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:23:31","slug":"1st-sept-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/2014\/09\/01\/1st-sept-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Sept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The date is written but there is no entry on this day &#8211; the retreat continues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sir John French the Commander in Chief of the BEF [British Expeditionary Force] decided that the safety of his troops depended on his conforming to the movements of the French. It was agreed that the Franco-British Armies should fall back to the River Marne so the last stage of the Retreat began.<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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>August 1914: Surrender at St.Quentin<\/em>, by John Hutton<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333\"><em>Twenty Years After &#8211; 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&#8217;s 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date is written but there is no entry on this day &#8211; the retreat continues Sir John French the Commander in Chief of the BEF [British Expeditionary Force] decided that the safety of his troops depended on his conforming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/2014\/09\/01\/1st-sept-1914\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/rsm-beck-diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}