{"id":10675,"date":"2015-02-10T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2015-02-10T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T11:00:42","slug":"deployment-to-france-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/deployment-to-france-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Deployment to France in 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wednesday, February 10, 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> \u201cLeft Lark Hill at 9 p.m., entraining at Amesbury between 10 and 11 p.m.\u00a0 Proceeded direct to Avonmouth Dock, Bristol.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0<strong>LEAVING SALISBURY AT LAST &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cBetween the hours of 9 p.m. and midnight on February 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 1915, the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment, paraded in full marching order at Lark Hill, and moved off in several detachments to Amesbury Station.\u00a0 Secret had been maintained as to the exact hour of departure and few spectators witnessed the unit\u2019s farewell to Salisbury Plain, but several officers, who had been transferred to reserve formations, were present to wish their comrades good luck and God-speed. Something of the regret which these super-numeraries saw the Regiment leave for active service is reflected in the diary of a French-Canadian officer who writes, \u201cSaw my dear Regiment march off to the front.\u00a0 How badly I feel to see them go and leave me here.\u201d\u00a0 Regret, however, was not the keynote of the occasion.\u00a0 Officers and men rejoiced that the weary months of training were over and that the Division was on the move, presumably to France, even though this was not certain.\u00a0 All of which the men felt sure that they were proceeding to Amesbury Station, there to entrain for an unnamed destination.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ORDER OF BATTLE and WAR ESTABLISHMENT &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>By this time the \u201cOrder of Battle and War Establishments for the First Canadian Division and Lines of Communication Units\u201d had been established, and Col. Duguid has included a table in his Official History reflecting these figures as at February 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 1915.\u00a0\u00a0 From this we note the numbers for the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion were set as follows: 30 Officers; 996 Other Ranks; for a total of 1,066 personnel; and 66 horses.\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Feb 10, 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>[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 24.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca\/dhh-dhp\/his\/docs\/CFGW_VOL1Pt2_E.pdf\"><em>Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919, Vol. I, Part 2,<\/em> <em>Chronology, Appendices and Maps,<\/em> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938. <\/a>Appendix 226, pg.158.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, February 10, 1915 In Hutments, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cLeft Lark Hill at 9 p.m., entraining at Amesbury between 10 and<\/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-10675","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\/10675","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=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}