{"id":10677,"date":"2015-02-11T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2015-02-11T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T11:00:18","slug":"rmr-off-to-sea-and-france-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-off-to-sea-and-france-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR OFF TO SEA AND FRANCE in 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thursday, February 11, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>On Board H.M. Transport \u201c<em>Australind<\/em>,\u201d (Captain Sidney Angell)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cEmbarked on transport direct from train; found a heavy artillery battery commanded by Major McDougall[sic]* already on board.\u00a0 Ship very crowded.\u00a0 Sailed late in the day, escorted by destroyers<\/em>.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n<p>* Note:\u00a0 The War Diary appears to be in error with this name; the Bn. history contains the correct name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cMarching through the blackness of a cool, fine night, the detachments of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> reached Amesbury and entrained without incident, or misadventure, the trains moving out slowly afterwards and reaching<\/p>\n<p>Amesbury Dock early on the morning of February 11<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 At Avonmouth the Battalion embarked at once on the transport <em>Australind<\/em>, a captured German cargo and cattle steamer of some 4,000 tons, commanded by Captain Sidney Angell.\u00a0 With the 14<sup>th<\/sup> on board was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Canadian Heavy Battery, under the command of Major F.C. Magee [Frank Cormack Magee, of St. John, N.B., later Lt.-Col., DSO].\u00a0 Accomodation on the <em>Australind<\/em> was distinctly limited, officers occupying the few cabins that existed and the men, in the words of one diary, being, \u201ccrowded into holds, hatchways, and empty horse stalls.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cGone,\u201d continues this record, \u201care the palatial quarters of the <em>Andania. <\/em>Here there is a smell of horses; dust is plentiful, and rats promenade on the pipes above our heads; but things like that bother us very little these days.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Feb 11, 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\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, pp. 24-25.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 11, 1915 On Board H.M. Transport \u201cAustralind,\u201d (Captain Sidney Angell) The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cEmbarked on transport direct from train; found a heavy artillery<\/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-10677","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\/10677","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=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}