{"id":10318,"date":"2014-12-31T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2014-12-31T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T11:00:46","slug":"rmrs-1914-new-years-eve-church-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmrs-1914-new-years-eve-church-service\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR's 1914 NEW YEARS EVE CHURCH SERVICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, December 31, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDuty Battalion. No training.\u201d\u00a0[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cOn New Year\u2019s Eve Major F. G. Scott, Protestant Chaplain of the Regiment, held a celebration of Holy Communion in Amesbury Parish Church.\u00a0 The service was impressive, because of the solemnity of the service and the hour. \u00a0As the bells of the church rang out across the moonlit and frost whitened fields, 1914 faded into history and the Empire faced its first New Year of the War.\u201d\u00a0 [4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Maj.-Gen. C. Basil Price, then a C.S.M. in the 14th<\/sup> Bn. at the time, recalls \u201cCanon Scott was our Padre then and he had a New Year\u2019s Eve service in Ainsbury(sic) Parish Church, a beautiful old Norman Church. And it was one of the few perfect nights with a full moon and a white frost, and we walked across the plains to the Church. And it was a wonderful service.\u00a0 They had the choir and everything there and quite one of my happiest memories of the war really.\u201d\u00a0 [5]<\/a><\/p>\n

The Amesbury Parish Church of St Mary and St. Melor was started as a Benedictine Abbey in the year 979 on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery.<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Dec31, 1914<\/em>.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/47747520<\/a><\/pre>\n
[3]\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.oodwooc.co.uk\/ph_amesbury_in.htm#035<\/a><\/pre>\n
[4]\u00a0\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, The Royal Montreal Regiment 14th Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925,<\/em> Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 20.<\/pre>\n
[5]\u00a0\u00a0 C. Basil Price as told in \u201cFlanders Fields : Canada Answers the Call,\u201d<\/em> a 17 part radio series produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1964, Program 3, transcript pg. 28.\u00a0 Transcripts now held by Library and Archives Canada, RG 41, Vol. 6; as quoted by George H. Cassar, \u201cHell in Flanders \u2013 Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres,\"<\/em> Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2010, pg. 44.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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