{"id":10412,"date":"2015-01-07T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2015-01-07T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T11:00:43","slug":"camps-flooded-out-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/camps-flooded-out-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Camps Flooded Out in 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, January 7, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n

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

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cAddress to officers 3rd<\/sup> Bde. by Gen. McCracken* on \u2018Phases of War, and Discipline.\u201d\u00a0[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"07<\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cSalisbury, January 7., – Twenty-five hundred Canadians who have been engaged in trenching and in building huts and roads completed these operations today, and will begin hard drilling tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Camp conditions are deplorable, owing to the unprecedentedly bad weather, but all the Montrealers and Winnipeggers are healthy.\u00a0 There is a possibility that the contingent will proceed to France shortly to finish training.\u00a0 This, or a large extension of billeting is apparently absolutely necessary, as owing to the heavy and unceasing rains and the overflow of the River Avon, the lower parts of Salisbury Plain have been rendered impossible of habitation.\u00a0 Several battalions of the Canadians have already been billeted in the surrounding villages.<\/p>\n

At a meeting of the chaplains of the first Contingent, held at Lark Hill Camp, a resolution was passed recording the sense of deep loss sustained by the chaplains in the death of their colleague, Chaplain George Inglis, of the Queens Own Rifles.\u201d\u00a0 [3]<\/a><\/p>\n

*\u00a0 \u201cLieutenant-General<\/a> Sir Frederick William Nicholas McCracken, KCB, DSO, (18 August 1859 \u2013 8 August 1949) was a British Army<\/a> officer who saw regimental service in Africa during the late nineteenth century, and later held senior command during the First World War<\/a>. He commanded an infantry brigade in the British Expeditionary Force<\/a> of 1914, was appointed to command 15th (Scottish) Division<\/a> in the New Armies from 1915 to 1917, and then briefly commanded XIII Corps<\/a> on the Western Front before being posted to a home command in the United Kingdom.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 [4]<\/a><\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan 7, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCamps Flooded Out,\u201d The Gazette,<\/em> Montreal, Quebec, Friday, January 8, pg. 7, col. 1.<\/pre>\n
[3]\u00a0 Ibid<\/pre>\n
[4] Wikipedia contributors, \"Frederick McCracken,\" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,<\/em> http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Frederick_McCracken&oldid=607456153<\/a> (accessed October 24, 2014).<\/pre>\n
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