{"id":10548,"date":"2015-01-26T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2015-01-26T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:00:43","slug":"all-leave-cancelled-for-rmr-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/all-leave-cancelled-for-rmr-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL LEAVE CANCELLED FOR RMR IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tuesday, January 26, 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> \u201cDuty Battn.\u00a0 All day brigade manoeuvres near West Down South.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cFrom the time of arrival in England leave not exceeding six days for all ranks up to twenty percent of the force was granted, with a free ticket to any place in the British Isles.\u00a0 On 6<sup>th<\/sup> November the G.O.C., with regret, reduced the percentage \u201cowing to the numerous reports he had had of considerable numbers of men being drunk and disorderly in public places of entertainment in London and other towns.\u201d\u00a0 The restriction was removed in mid-December when half the Contingent was allowed six days leave for Christmas, and the other half a similar period at New Year.\u00a0 On 26<sup>th<\/sup> January all leave was cancelled and all on leave were recalled.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCIPLINE:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cCivil offences committed by the troops were few; of military offences more than half were for absence without leave, drunkenness ranked next, and cases of insubordination were rare.\u00a0 Absence without leave usually meant overstaying pass; a military crime classified in the circumstances as a minor offence, for determination was needed to forsake the bright lights of London or the kindly warmth of home and friends, when the alternative was a tent on a wind-swept waste where darkness lasted fourteen hours a day and all was wetness, mud, and misery.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan 26, 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> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pp. 131<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid, pp. 131-132<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, January 26, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDuty Battn.\u00a0 All day brigade manoeuvres near West Down South.\u201d [1] THIS<\/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-10548","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\/10548","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=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}