{"id":10540,"date":"2015-01-24T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2015-01-24T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T11:00:32","slug":"trenches-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/trenches-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"TRENCHES In 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sunday, January 24, 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> \u201cChurch Parade.\u00a0 Received \u201cNotes on Trench Warfare\u201d from Bde.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0The Regimental history records \u201cas in December, training throughout the month of January was seriously hampered by rain, floods, and the heart breaking mud, but, whenever outdoor work was quite impossible, lectures and instructions were substituted\u2026but particularly interesting to all ranks was a series of \u201cNotes\u201d with up-to-date information regarding the development of trench warfare in France.\u00a0 Coming \u201chot from the battlefield,\u201d these notes were eagerly studied by officers and men alike.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is a bird\u2019s eye view of trench layout (in ideal conditions).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/24-Jan-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10288 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/24-Jan-15.png\" alt=\"24 Jan 15\" width=\"948\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan 24, 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\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 21.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwar1.com\/special\/btw\/btw090.gif\">http:\/\/www.worldwar1.com\/special\/btw\/btw090.gif<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[4]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ef\/Trench_construction_diagram_1914.png\">http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ef\/Trench_construction_diagram_1914.png<\/a><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, January 24, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cChurch Parade.\u00a0 Received \u201cNotes on Trench Warfare\u201d from Bde.\u201d [1] THIS DAY<\/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-10540","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\/10540","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=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}