{"id":10267,"date":"2014-12-22T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T22:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10267"},"modified":"2014-12-22T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T22:02:32","slug":"10267-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/10267-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTMAS HOSPITALITY EXTENDED TO RMR IN 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tuesday, December 22, 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 Battalion.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817&amp;preview=true#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10115\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/22-Dec-14.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10115 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/22-Dec-14-300x211.png\" alt=\"Carrying meals in the snow at Salisbury\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Carrying meals in the snow at Salisbury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u201cLondon, Dec. 21.\u00a0 \u2013 An interesting movement regarding Christmas leave from Salisbury has been inaugurated by some householders in the London district who for various reasons are particularly interested in the Canadian troops but who have no friends actually serving with the contingent.<\/p>\n<p>These good people have resolved to offer hospitality at Yuletide to lonely Canadian soldiers who have obtained leave, and who have no domestic hearths this side where they can spend it.\u00a0 In order to minimize the possibility of embarrassment which might accrue from hosts and guests being total strangers, the good offices of commanding officers, chaplains, and the like are being enlisted and it is anticipated these gentlemen will exercise the necessary tact in seeing such invitations are extended in quarters which will result in the givers\u2019 hospitality and the recipients finding their company mutually agreeable.<\/p>\n<p>It is particularly pleasant to record several instances of this exhibition of good will prompted by recollections of spontaneous and liberal hospitality shown in Canada to those visiting there.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Dec 22, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, <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 Canadian War Museum, Image M.319, Control No. 19930003-387<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOffer Hospitality To Canadian Troops,\u201d <em>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/em>, Montreal, Tuesday, December 22, 1914, pg. 3, col. 3.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, December 22, 1914 In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDuty Battalion.\u201d\u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u201cLondon, Dec. 21.\u00a0 \u2013<\/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-10267","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\/10267","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=10267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}