{"id":10241,"date":"2014-12-12T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10241"},"modified":"2014-12-12T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T11:00:59","slug":"10241-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/10241-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Artillery Escalation in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, December 12, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cRain. Brigade march in p.m.\u00a0 Dismissed to private parades by Brigadier about one mile and half from Camp.\u00a0 Raced other battns. of Brigade home, all starting level.\u00a0 14th<\/sup> beat others by 150 yards.\u201d \u00a0[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Munitions workers making artillery shells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THE ARTILLERY:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cA full complement of artillery guns and ammunition wagons of standard British pattern had been brought from Canada and no changes were made.\u00a0 The two types of gun were the 18-pdr. for the Field Artillery, and the 60-pdr for the heavy battery.\u00a0 There were no 4.5-inch howitzers because the field howitzer brigade of British divisional establishments was still omitted from the Canadian; an urgent recommendation of General Alderson, in November, that it should be raised in Canada and sent across, had to be answered by the Militia Department on 21st<\/sup> January, as no pieces were yet forthcoming: \u201cHowitzer Brigade will not be included in 1st<\/sup> Canadian Division.\u201d\u201d\u00a0 [2]<\/a><\/p>\n

ARTILLERY AMMUNITION EXPENDED:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMany Canadian workmen engaged just now in the making of shrapnel for the field artillery of Britain and the Dominion will be interested in an item from Paris which states that from the eastern border of France to the North Sea over ten thousand cannon, ranging upward from three inches to sixteen, daily vomit death and destruction back and forth across the battle-line.\u00a0 It is estimated that when there is a day of steady cannonading the bill for artillery ammunition is over a million dollars.\u00a0 No wonder foundries are working over-time on the manufacture of shells.\u00a0 In Poland also, and Servia and Asia Minor and other war areas, the red artillery sends out its costly glare day and night.\u00a0 War has become a great business in which vast industrial plants must be devoted to feeding the guns.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Dec 12, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201cOfficial History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1<\/em>, Part 1,<\/em> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pg. 136.<\/pre>\n
[3]<\/a>\u00a0 \u201cWar Summary,\u201d The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Saturday, December 12, 1914, pg. 2, col. 2.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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