{"id":10472,"date":"2015-01-15T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10472"},"modified":"2015-01-15T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T11:00:52","slug":"friday-january-15-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/friday-january-15-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"COMFORTS NEEDED IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Friday, January 15, 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> \u201cMorning, Battalion in attack, p.m. Route march. \u00a0Lecture on billeting by 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Bde. Staff Officer.\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\/15-Jan-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10282 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/15-Jan-15-230x300.png\" alt=\"15 Jan 15\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cWord has just reached the St. John Ambulance Society that the following articles are needed by the Canadian Expeditionary Force on Salisbury Plain: socks, comforters, wristlets, sleeping socks, sweaters, warm underclothing.\u00a0 These are needed by the second battalion whose strength is 1,141.\u00a0 The ninth battalion is in need of cholera bands, pajamas, underwear, socks, warm woolen gloves, balaclava caps, slippers for sick men, elastic bandages, mufflers, handkerchiefs, Seidlitz powders,* wristlets.\u00a0 The Royal Canadian Horse Artillery need mufflers, warm gloves andhandkerchiefs.\u00a0 The society will receive any of these comforts and forward them for distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe St. John Anbulance Society Will Receive and Forward Gifts To Salisbury,\u201d <em>The Toronto World<\/em>, Toronto, Ontario, Tuesday, January 12, 1915, pg. 3, col. 5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Seidlitz powder or Sedlitz powders is the name under which a commonly known regulator of digestion and laxative was distributed. It is composed of a mixture of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tartaric_acid\">tartaric acid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sodium_bicarbonate\">sodium bicarbonate<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potassium_sodium_tartrate\">potassium sodium tartrate<\/a>, and is used as a mild <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathartic\">cathartic<\/a> by dissolving it in water and drinking.<\/p>\n<pre>Wikipedia contributors, \"Seidlitz powder,\" <em>Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Seidlitz_powder&amp;oldid=624806383\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Seidlitz_powder&amp;oldid=624806383<\/a> (accessed October 25, 2014).<\/pre>\n<pre><em>[1] War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan\u00a0 , 1915.\u00a0 Library andArchives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 15, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cMorning, Battalion in attack, p.m. Route march. \u00a0Lecture on billeting by 3rd<\/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-10472","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\/10472","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=10472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}