{"id":10557,"date":"2015-01-29T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10557"},"modified":"2015-01-29T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:00:52","slug":"another-rmr-victim-of-meningitis-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/another-rmr-victim-of-meningitis-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Another RMR Victim of Meningitis in 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Friday, January 29, 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> \u201cDrawing equipment.\u00a0 Active preparations for move.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0Corporal Arthur Sydney Randall was born at Wilton, Salisbury, England, on October 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 1883, to William Sydney and Sarah Rebecca Randall of that town.\u00a0 Sometime after the spring of 1911 he emigrated to Canada where he was employed as a advertising agent salesman and lived on Jeanne Mance Street.\u00a0 During Arthur\u2019s stay in Montreal he served with the Canadian Grenadier Guards for 22 months before enlisting for overseas service with the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Bn. on September 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 1914.\u00a0 While the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion was stationed at Salisbury Camp, Arthur contracted meningitis and was hospitalized at Bulford Hospital and died there on January 29<sup>th<\/sup>, 1914 at the age of 31.\u00a0 He was unmarried, and was buried at Bulford Church Cemetery, Wiltshire, not far from where he had been born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/29-Jan-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10292 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/29-Jan-15.png\" alt=\"29 Jan 15\" width=\"944\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan\u00a0 29, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/bulfordparishcouncil.org.uk\/st-leonards-church\/\">http:\/\/bulfordparishcouncil.org.uk\/st-leonards-church\/<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/45301\/BULFORD%20CHURCH%20CEMETERY\">http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/45301\/BULFORD%20CHURCH%20CEMETERY<\/a><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 29, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDrawing equipment.\u00a0 Active preparations for move.\u201d [1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0Corporal<\/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-10557","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\/10557","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=10557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}