{"id":10559,"date":"2015-01-30T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2015-01-30T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:00:04","slug":"completion-of-equipment-issue-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/completion-of-equipment-issue-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPLETION OF EQUIPMENT ISSUE IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saturday, January 30, 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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/30-Jan-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10293 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/30-Jan-15-300x209.png\" alt=\"30 Jan 15\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cAlthough the First Contingent had been almost completely equipped at Valcartier, many of the articles were not of British pattern.\u00a0 After examination by War Office experts and selected officers of the Division, it was decided at the end of January that certain of the Canadian issues were unserviceable or unsuitable, and replacement from British Ordnance Stores \u2013 already hard pressed to supply the needs of the increasing home divisions \u2013 was thereupon necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The change from Canadian to British service dress was made gradually as renewals were required, but a full issue of British \u201cammunition\u201d boots was immediately necessary as the Canadian pattern was not designed for marching on pav\u00e9 roads or continual soaking in mud.\u00a0 General Alderson had cabled to Canada for authority to purchase serviceable footwear, and found that 48,000 pairs of overshoes had already been shipped, but on trial these \u201cdid not compensate for faulty construction of boots\u201d\u00a0 issued; his call for 40,000 fur-lined jackets was met with an issue of heavy sweaters, rightly considered more serviceable.<\/p>\n<p>Only five battalions had brought web equipment from Canada, the others wore the obsolescent Oliver pattern which had pouches for 80 instead of 150 rounds, but no pack or facilities for carrying the entrenching implement, and cut a man under the arms.\u00a0 General Alderson, after cabling in vain to Ottawa for Web pattern, was not to be put off with \u201cNew valise Oliver Equipment\u201d (1915 Model), and obtained an issue for seven battalions from the War Office, together with a full divisional issue of British pattern entrenching implements.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan 30, 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 http:\/\/www.cmhslivinghistory.com\/ppcli1_equip_webbing.htm<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\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, pg. 138.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, January 30, 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:\u00a0\u201cAlthough<\/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-10559","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\/10559","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=10559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}