{"id":10544,"date":"2015-01-25T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2015-01-25T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T11:00:14","slug":"10544-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/10544-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR: Multicultural Melting Pot Since Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monday, January 25, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cInspection by Gen. Turner, V.C., comd\u2019g 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Bde.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0Col. A. F. Duguid, in his \u201c<em>Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919\u201d<\/em> has this to say about the composition of the First Canadian Contingent:\u00a0 \u201cOf the 34,500 rank and file less than thirty per cent were Canadian-born; over sixty-five per cent had been born in the British Isles and other British possessions, and of the remainder about one-half, or 2<strong>.<\/strong>6 per cent, were born in the United States of America. \u00a0Nothing definite can be stated as to the proficiency in arms of the other ranks; some had served in the British Regular Army, some in the Territorials and many in the Canadian Militia, but a large number were men of no military training or experience.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The experience of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion was somewhat different.\u00a0 The 1914 Establishment List of the Battalion shows the men of the newly formed battalion were born in twenty three different countries (or areas), and their proportional representation by place of birth differs from what Col. Duguid shows for the Contingent as a whole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/25-Jan-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/25-Jan-15.png\" alt=\"25 Jan 15\" width=\"432\" height=\"522\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan 21, 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 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201c<em>Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1<\/em>, <em>Part 1,<\/em>\u201d King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pg. 50<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Figures based on - <em>\u201cNominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force -<\/em> <em>Issued with Militia Orders. 1915<\/em>.\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, January 25, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cInspection by Gen. Turner, V.C., comd\u2019g 3rd Bde.\u201d [1] THIS DAY IN<\/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-10544","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\/10544","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=10544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}