{"id":10306,"date":"2014-12-27T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10306"},"modified":"2014-12-27T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T11:00:40","slug":"canadians-escape-from-the-tower-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/canadians-escape-from-the-tower-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians ESCAPE FROM THE TOWER OF LONDON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sunday, December 27, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cChurch Parade.\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\/27-Dec-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/27-Dec-14-295x300.png\" alt=\"27 Dec 14\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cLondon, December 27. \u2013 Two members of the Canadian Veterinary Corps, incarcerated in the Tower of London for disorderly conduct, broke their window bars, escaped when the guard was being changed, and returned to camp.\u00a0 These are the first escapes from the Tower of London recorded for a full century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALDERSON\u2019S MESSAGE &#8211; GENERAL THANKS CANADIANS FOR SOLDIERLY CONDUCT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>London, December 27. \u2013 General Alderson has issued a message to the Canadian soldiers, expressing appreciation of their soldier-like conduct, despite the discomforts of living under canvas in an English winter, and says that he would like to thank each man personally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MENINGITIS OUTBREAK \u2013 FIFTEEN CASES SINCE CANADIANS REACHED SALISBURY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>London, December 27. \u2013 Chaplain Lester Ingles, son of Rev. Archdeacon Ingles, of Toronto, has been stricken with spinal meningitis, and is in Bulford Hospital.\u00a0 His recovery is expected.\u00a0 There have been fifteen cases of meningitis since the arrival of the Canadian contingent at Salisbury.\u00a0 Col. Jones, Director of Medical Services is taking precautionary measures against a widespread epidemic of the disease.\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 27, 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 \u201cStone Walls Do Not A Prison Make,\u201d <em>The Gazette<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, December 28, 1914, pg. 7, col. 1.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 27, 1914 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cChurch Parade.\u201d\u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cLondon, December 27. \u2013 Two members<\/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-10306","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\/10306","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=10306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}