{"id":10464,"date":"2015-01-01T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10464"},"modified":"2015-01-01T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T11:00:28","slug":"change-needed-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/change-needed-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"CHANGE NEEDED IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monday, January 11, 1915<\/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> \u201cTraining.\u00a0 Battalion route march and drill.\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\/12\/11-Jan-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/11-Jan-15-300x207.png\" alt=\"11 Jan 15\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cSalisbury, January 11., &#8211; In consequence of the serious outbreak of spinal meningitis in the Canadian camps at Salisbury Plain, which has already caused a number of deaths, a determined effort is being made in the highest British-Canadian circles to secure the drastic step of having the entire contingent billeted, or else removed to France at once, the latter move being considered preferable.\u00a0 Anything which the authorities at Ottawa can do to back up the efforts being made in England would be greatly appreciated, as it is considered, by those in touch with the situation here, that the proposal is one of overwhelming importance for the welfare of the Canadian troops.<\/p>\n<p>Intense regret is expressed at the death of Lieut.-Col. Frank Strange, of Kingston, one of the victims of meningitis, following as it did the death of Rev. Capt. Ingles, chaplain of the Queen\u2019s Own Rifles of Toronto. Lieut.-Col. Strange\u2019s body will be sent to Canada for interment.\u00a0 There is sorrow also among the Montreal soldiers at the death of Private Fred McGuinness, son of Maj. McGuinness of Montreal.\u00a0 Several cases of meningitis are now under treatment at Bulford Hospital, near Salisbury.\u00a0Artillery practice at the ranges by the Canadians will commence tomorrow.\u00a0 Divisional exercises will be held on the 25<sup>th<\/sup> instant, now the schedule is calling for the completion of training by the Canadian force next month\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>It is officially reported that there have been 25 cases of meningitis among the Canadians in camp, and that 16 deaths have resulted.\u00a0 There has been little illness among the Ontario brigade.\u00a0 The Toronto regiment is establishing its own hospital under supervision of Dr. Haywood, formerly of the Toronto General.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan 11, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cUrging Changes For Canadians,\u201d <em>The Gazette,<\/em> Montreal, Quebec, Tuesday, January 12, 1915, pg. 1, col 3.<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, January 11, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cTraining.\u00a0 Battalion route march and drill.\u201d\u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cSalisbury, January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464","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=10464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}