{"id":10248,"date":"2014-12-15T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2014-12-15T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T11:00:08","slug":"planning-the-second-division-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/planning-the-second-division-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"PLANNING THE SECOND DIVISION IN 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, December 15, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

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

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cGeneral training.\u00a0 Squad drill; company in attack; defence of village or wood.\u201d\u00a0[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"15<\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u201cOttawa, Dec. 15. \u2013 The details of the allocation and mobilization of some of the 50,000 troops which\u00a0 were recently ordered to be recruited and also the first overseas contingent were made known by the Prime Minister today.\u00a0 The troops are classified as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Troops forming the second Canadian division;<\/li>\n
  2. Lines of communication units;<\/li>\n
  3. Regiments of mounted rifles;<\/li>\n
  4. Battalions of extra-divisional infantry<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    The Second Division will have three infantry brigades, one of which is in England, two companies of cyclists, three brigades of field artillery, one heavy battery, one ammunition column, two field companies of engineers, one divisional train, and three ambulances.<\/p>\n

    The line of communication units included in the second contingent are provided by the Army Service Corps with the exception of the General Hospital, the personnel of which will be drawn from McGill University.\u00a0 Some of the A.S.C. units are being mobilized at Toronto, others at Montreal.\u00a0 A remount depot will probably be added.<\/p>\n

    In all there are to be three regiments of mounted rifles, grouped in brigades of three regiments each.\u00a0 Manitoba and Saskatchewan will supply one regiment, and British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces one each.<\/p>\n

    The remainder are allotted provisionally as follows:\u00a0 Ontario two regiments, Manitoba and Saskatchewan two, British Columbia one and Alberta two.<\/p>\n

    Of the battalions of extra-divisional infantry which may be expected to make up overseas contingents after the second has sailed, seven have been for some time in process of mobilization at Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary and Victoria.<\/p>\n

    In addition there are nineteen battalions, the mobilization of which has just commenced, and which will be carried on with expedition.\u00a0 Seven of these battalions will be raised in Ontario, two in the London district, three in the Toronto district, and two in the Kingston district; two will be raised in Quebec, one at Montreal and the other at Quebec, the latter being a French-Canadian battalion, one in the Maritime Provinces, probably at St. John; one in Manitoba and Saskatchewan; one in British Columbia and one in Alberta.\u201d\u00a0 [3]<\/a><\/p>\n

    [1]\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Dec 15, 1914<\/em>.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
    [2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAllocation Of Fifty Thousand Canadian Troops,\u201d The Montreal Daily Mail<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, Wednesday, December 16, 1914, pg. 5, col. 5<\/pre>\n
    [3] \u00a0\u00a0Ibid.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Tuesday, December 15, 1914 In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cGeneral training.\u00a0 Squad drill; company in attack; defence of village or<\/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-10248","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\/10248","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=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}