{"id":10666,"date":"2015-02-08T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10666"},"modified":"2015-02-08T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T11:00:55","slug":"rmr-still-allowed-to-drink-beer-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-still-allowed-to-drink-beer-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR Still Allowed to Drink Beer in 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monday, February 8, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In Hutments, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cOrders received to be ready to move in 24 hours.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/08-Feb-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10633\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/08-Feb-15.png\" alt=\"08 Feb 15\" width=\"277\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0The news carried by this Associated Press story was probably no longer of interest to the soldiers of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion as they prepared for their imminent move to France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLondon, Feb. 9 \u2013 The wet canteen of the Canadian troops on Salisbury Plain is not to be abolished.\u00a0 Mr. Harold Baker, speaking for the War Office, admits that representations had been made that it was not in the interests of the men to afford them such facilities for drinking while training in camp.<\/p>\n<p>The sale of beer in the canteens of the contingent on Salisbury Plain was sanctioned at the request of the responsible military authorities, who considered it necessary for disciplinary reasons, says Mr. Baker.\u00a0 It was concurred in by the Canadian artillery authorities, and in the circumstances it is not proposed to take any further steps in the matter.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Feb 8, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089693.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089693.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCanadians To Keep Their Wet Canteen,\u201d <em>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, Wednesday, February 10,1915, pg.1 col. 4.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, February 8, 1915 In Hutments, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cOrders received to be ready to move in 24 hours.\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-10666","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\/10666","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=10666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}