{"id":10202,"date":"2014-12-04T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2014-12-04T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T11:00:29","slug":"10202-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/10202-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Flooded but RMR capbadge is saved!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Friday, December 4, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cRain all day.\u00a0 Lt.-Gen. Alderson met officers of 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Brigade at Bde. H.Q. and stated he proposed to do away with all distinctive badges of the battalions of the Division, and substitute numerals only for them.\u00a0 Strong protests from all C.O.\u2019s.\u00a0 Lt.-Col. John Currie of the 15<sup>th<\/sup> Bn. told him that if he took any such step he \u201cwould be up against public opinion in Canada.\u201d\u00a0 Proposal was abandoned.\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: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/04-Dec-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10125 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/04-Dec-14.png\" alt=\"04 Dec 14\" width=\"505\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: Duguid tells us \u2013 \u201cOn 4<sup>th<\/sup> December, a sudden gale once more flattened much of the canvas, scattered beyond recovery correspondence in office tents, and blew away the treasury notes of a pay parade.\u00a0 Next day there was rain, hail and frost.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the headline \u201cHighlanders Flooded Out,\u201d The Globe\u2019s correspondent, William Marchington wrote: \u201cSalisbury Plain, Dec. 4.\u00a0 \u2013 A big rainstorm has so flooded the camp of the Highland Brigade* of the Canadian expeditionary force that the men have been sent to the nearest town for shelter.\u00a0 Fifteen thousand of the Canadians will be given leave for the Christmas holidays and the remainder of the force of 32,000 will get a holiday at the New Year.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Marchington and others frequently referred to the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Brigade as \u201cthe Highland Brigade\u201d because three of the four battalions in the brigade (13<sup>th<\/sup>, 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 16<sup>th<\/sup>) were highland regiments, while the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Bn, Royal Montreal Regiment, was not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Dec 4, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHighlanders Flooded Out,\u201d\u00a0 William Marchington, <em>The Globe(1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Saturday, December 5, 1914, pg. 1, col. 1.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201c<em>Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1<\/em>, Part 1, King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pg. 129.<\/pre>\n<pre>[4]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHighlanders Flooded Out,\u201d\u00a0 William Marchington, <em>The Globe(1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Saturday, December 5, 1914, pg. 1, col. 1.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, December 4, 1914 In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cRain all day.\u00a0 Lt.-Gen. 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