{"id":10005,"date":"2014-11-27T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2014-11-27T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:00:05","slug":"rmr-participates-in-1914-division-manoeuvres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-participates-in-1914-division-manoeuvres\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR PARTICIPATES IN 1914 DIVISION MANOEUVRES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Friday, November 27, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cDivisional Drill under Lt.-Gen. Alderson in morning.\u00a0 Lecture on communications in the field by Lt.-Col. Gordon-Hall.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817&amp;preview=true#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27-Nov-14.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9779 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27-Nov-14-300x216.png\" alt=\"27 Nov 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u201cSalisbury, Nov. 27\u00a0 &#8211; Twenty-two thousand Canadians were engaged all day in manoeuvres, all branches of the service participating.\u00a0\u00a0 The movements were the same as in battle, the idea being to show each unit where it belonged.\u00a0 It was a magnificent sight.\u00a0 General Pitcairn Campbell congratulated the Canadian officers and said the movements were admirably conducted.\u00a0 The men want Canadian plug tobacco for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>London, Nov. 27 \u2013 (Canadian Associated Cable) &#8211;\u00a0 Intimation made by the Canadian Associated Press ten days ago that forty-six members of the Canadian contingent had been sent back to Canada is now public property.\u00a0 These men, as already stated, are mostly of alien extraction, and will be interned in Canada.\u00a0 A few others are being returned to Canada for quite other reasons.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time the whole Canadian division is to-day out on manoeuvres, which will prove a most welcome change to the keen spitrits who, for some time, have been eager to get busy at a real kind of drill which is necessary before they are fit for the front.\u00a0 The only combined movements so far have been route marches and brigade drills.<\/p>\n<p>Considerable amount of leave is still being granted.\u00a0 The work of erecting wooden huts goes on well, Canadian engineers helping the civil contractors in this work.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Nov 27, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0 William Marchington, Staff Correspondent, \u201cEntire Contingent Out In Manoeuvres,\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, pg. 2, col. 5.<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, November 27, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDivisional Drill under Lt.-Gen. 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