The Ending Days: Red Reaping and Red Tape, by Capt E J Needham | 28 August - 5 September 1914 | Episode 27
Published on 28 August 1914
Captain Needham, from whose enthralling war diary is taken this most human story of the grey days of the great Retreat, was with the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regt. He and his men were reeling drunk with fatigue day after day. His stirring narrative begins on August 28, the fifth day of retreat, and ends with the orders on September 5 to advance again towards the Marne and the Aisne in pursuit of a retiring enemy.