{"id":10681,"date":"2015-02-13T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10681"},"modified":"2015-02-13T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T11:00:33","slug":"a-stormy-voyage-for-the-rmr-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/a-stormy-voyage-for-the-rmr-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"A STORMY VOYAGE FOR THE RMR IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saturday, February 13, 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> \u201cWeather still very bad. One man of battery killed by being thrown against iron stanchion<\/em>.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0The wind which had sprung up the night before, increased \u201cto a gale by the morning of the 13<sup>th<\/sup>, whipped up by a wild cross-sea which pitched and rolled the boat to such an extent that few on board escaped severe sea-sickness.\u00a0 To add to the resulting discomfort, cold waves broke over the deck and poured onto the miserable men in the holds, while one of the horses, breaking loose from its stall, stumbled down an open hatch and crashed to its death on the deck below.\u00a0 No one was injured by the fall of this animal, but later a great wave broke over the ship, caught an artilleryman off guard on the upper deck, swept him along like a piece of matchwood and killed him by dashing his head against an iron stanchion.\u00a0\u00a0 Warned by this misfortune, all men who had occasion during the remainder of the day to move about on deck did so with extreme caution.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalf a century later Maj.-Gen. C. Basil Price, then a C.S.M. in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, recalled that turbulent journey:\u00a0 \u201cThe weather was appalling.\u00a0 We had to have a submarine guard on deck, and everybody down in the hold. They were so sick that you had to search to find enough men to form a submarine guard.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0E. Seaman (3<sup>rd<\/sup> Battalion.) recalled that the \u201cstern of the boat was going up and down, and I\u2019m watching the waves to see if I can see a periscope bob up, but all I can see is the roast pork we had for dinner.\u201d\u00a0 To add to the unpleasantness, cold waves broke over the deck and drenched men huddled in the holds.\u00a0 But, as J.W. Ross pointed out, the soldiers were not the only ones affected by the deluge of water sweeping across the deck:\u00a0 \u201cThe waves were so terrific that they came right over and knocked the horses down on the steel deck and I went round trying to raise them up with the help of some of the men from the 16<sup>th<\/sup> battalion.\u00a0 And when they were too exhausted we\u2019d just shoot them and throw them overboard.\u201d \u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Feb 13, 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. 25.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 George H. Cassar, <em>\u201cHell in Flanders \u2013 Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres<\/em>, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2010, pg. 44.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, February 13, 1915 On Board H.M. Transport \u201cAustralind,\u201d (Captain Sidney Angell) The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cWeather still very bad. 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