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11th September 1914<\/h3>\n

The Dorsets didn’t leave until 9:25am because they were waiting for supplies, which were late. They marched throughout the day without any sign of the enemy, apart from what\u00a0damage they\u00a0had left behind in retreat. The rain continued to fall as the 15th Brigade\u00a0climbed up to\u00a0a plateau between the Marne and the Aisne. News came back from the front that the Germans were demoralised. Whether they\u00a0were remained to be seen, but the Germans\u00a0were certainly withdrawing along the line facing the BEF.<\/p>\n

Once “very comfortable” billets were finally found in Saint-R\u00e9my-Blanzy, Gleichen took\u00a0up his headquarters in the Cur\u00e9’s house and reports that “his poor little rooms had been ransacked, drawers and tables upset and their contents littered over the floor, and everything of the smallest value stolen by the Germans.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  11th September 1914 The Dorsets didn’t leave until 9:25am because they were waiting for supplies, which were late. They marched throughout the day without any sign of the enemy, apart from what\u00a0damage they\u00a0had left behind in retreat. The rain continued to fall as the 15th Brigade\u00a0climbed up to\u00a0a plateau between the Marne and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Frank is on the march again http:\/\/wp.me\/p4Wjz3-9v #dorsets #ww1 #100yearsagotoday #LivesOfWW1","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[8],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Wjz3-9v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}