{"id":10553,"date":"2015-01-28T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10553"},"modified":"2015-01-28T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:00:05","slug":"r-s-m-john-m-stephenson-dcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/r-s-m-john-m-stephenson-dcm\/","title":{"rendered":"R.S.M. JOHN M. STEPHENSON, DCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thursday, January 28, 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> \u201cDraft of unfit sent to 12<sup>th<\/sup> Battn.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10291\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/28-Jan-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10291 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/28-Jan-15-300x291.png\" alt=\"R.S.M. JOHN M. STEPHENSON, DCM\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">R.S.M. JOHN M. STEPHENSON, DCM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0<strong>John Myhoe Stephenson, R.S.M., (Lieut.), DCM, (#25540)<\/strong> was born 29 Apr 1885 at Douglas on the Isle of Man. After serving three years with the Manchester Regiment, he came to Canada and served eight years with the Royal Canadian Regiment.\u00a0 At the outbreak of war he re-enlisted with another regiment as a sergeant, but as we have already seen, the newly appointed R.S.M. of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Bn., C. Basil Price, an officer of the Victoria Rifles, who had relinquished his commission to accompany the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Bn. overseas, realized how valuable to the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Bn. Stephenson would be.<\/p>\n<p>Price therefore relinquished his post in August of 1914 and became a colour-sergeant to permit Stephenson\u2019s appointment as Regimental Sergeant Major of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Bn.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson was wounded in the Battles of Ypres (Apr-May 1915) and returned to the battalion in the last week of July 1915.\u00a0 He was wounded again on August 31<sup>st<\/sup> by shelling, and again evacuated, and posted to the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Bn., to be succeeded as R.S.M. of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> by Sergt. W.A. Bonshor.<\/p>\n<p>In January 1916 Stephenson was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the citation reading \u2013 \u201c<em>For conspicuous gallantry; he was instrumental in keeping up the supply of ammunition, and, in many instances, he carried the boxes himself into the line, under very heavy shell fire, displaying the greatest bravery and devotion. He has twice been wounded in action.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was also Mentioned in Despatches, and was awarded the Medaille Militaire by France.<\/p>\n<p>In February 1916 while on the strength of the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Bn. he was appointed a temporary Lieutenant with effect 25 Jan 1916.\u00a0 In June of 1916 he was appointed a temporary Quarter-Master with the rank of Honorary Captain effective 16 Oct 1916.\u00a0 In Nov. 1917 this was changed to be temporary Lieut. effective 10 June 1917.\u00a0 This was changed again in Feb 1918 when he was appointed acting Captain with effect 21 Dec 1917, and then again in May 1918 when as temporary Lieut., he relinquished the acting rank of Captain, effective 21 Jan 1918, and he ended the war as a Lieutenant.<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 \u00a0<em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Jan 28, 1914<\/em>.\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 Supplement to the <em>London Gazette<\/em>, 29503, 11 March, 1916, pg. 2745.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 28, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDraft of unfit sent to 12th Battn.\u201d [1] THIS DAY IN RMR<\/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-10553","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\/10553","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=10553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}