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After the opening battles of the war at Mons on 23rd August, 1914 and Le Cateau on 26th August, the British Army (BEF), in conjunction with the French Army, began a retreat that took them all the way back to the River Marne, 200 miles to the south. With the Germans in hot pursuit they were forced to fight a series of rear guard actions as they fell back in extremely hot weather. The Great Retreat, as it became known, came to an end on 5th September, 1914 when the allied forces attacked along the River Marne and drove the Germans back to the River Aisne.

8 Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery was part of 5th Division that had fought at both Mons and Le Cateau and then on 27th August retreated through St Quentin to St Simon. There is no information in the brigade diary concerning the death of George Treloor on 27th August and it could well be that he was killed on the day before during the Battle of Le Cateau and that his death was recorded later.