{"id":10246,"date":"2014-12-14T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10246"},"modified":"2014-12-14T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T11:00:39","slug":"some-rmrs-transfer-to-british-army-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/some-rmrs-transfer-to-british-army-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Some RMR&#039;s Transfer to British Army in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monday, December 14, 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> \u201cDuty Battn.\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\/11\/14-Dec-14.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10110 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14-Dec-14-300x125.png\" alt=\"14 Dec 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0\u201cSalisbury Plain, Dec. 14. \u2013 Several hundred Canadian officers and men in excess of the required strength of the contingent here have secured commissions in Kitchener\u2019s army, rather than wait to be taken on other Canadian contingents.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Regimental history, Vol. 1, pg. 319, records the names of thirty-two non-commissioned officers and men of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment who were granted commissions in the Imperial Army during the course of the War. \u00a0<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also recorded are the names of sixty-four officers of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion who were commissioned after service in the Battalion ranks, while a further fifty-three non-commissioned officers and men of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion were granted commissions in other units of the Canadian Expeditionary force during the War. <a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[5]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Dec 14, 1914.<\/em>\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 \u201cCanadians Joining Kitchener\u2019s Army,\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Tuesday, December 15, 1914, pg. 1, col. 3.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3] \u00a0\u00a0Ibid<\/pre>\n<pre>[4]\u00a0 \u00a0R.C. Featherstonhaugh, <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927., pg. 319.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, December 14, 1914 In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDuty Battn.\u201d \u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0\u201cSalisbury Plain, Dec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}