{"id":10683,"date":"2015-02-14T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2015-02-14T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T11:00:10","slug":"burial-at-sea-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/burial-at-sea-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Burial At Sea in 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sunday, February 14, 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 moderated.\u00a0 Held Orderly Room on deck<\/em>.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0The Battalion history records:\u00a0 \u201cOn February 14<sup>th<\/sup> the weather moderated and at noon the body of the unfortunate artilleryman was committed to the sea, Canon Sylvestre, Roman Catholic Chaplain of the 14<sup>th<\/sup>, reading the burial service, and military honours being paid by members of the dead man\u2019s unit and by officers and men of the 14<sup>th<\/sup>, who stood respectfully by.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At night the coast of France was sighted.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>No. 42437, GUNNER WILLIAM JOHN BALL:\u00a0<\/strong>The unfortunate man who lost his life was Gunner William John Ball, #42437, born in 1869 at Little Coxwell, near Farrington, Berkshire, England.\u00a0 He was a \u2018teamster\u2019 who had over 13 years prior service in the Royal Artillery before enlisting with the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Battery, Canadian Artillery in 1914. He was buried at sea the day following his death. He left to mourn his death, his wife Annie of Toronto, who returned to England after his death.<\/p>\n<p>Gunner Ball\u2019s name is recorded on the The Hollybrook Memorial situated in Southampton (Hollybrook) Cemetery.\u00a0 \u201cThis Memorial commemorates by name almost 1,900 servicemen and women of the Commonwealth land and air forces* whose graves are not known, many of whom were lost in transports or other vessels torpedoed or mined in home waters. \u00a0(*Officers and men of the Commonwealth&#8217;s navies who have no grave but the sea are commemorated on memorials elsewhere).\u00a0 The memorial also bears the names of those who were lost or buried at sea, or who died at home but whose bodies could not be recovered for burial. Almost one third of the names on the memorial are those of officers and men of the South African Native Labour Corps, who died when the troop transport <em>Mendi<\/em> sank in the Channel following a collision on 21 February 1917.\u00a0 Lives lost in the sinking of numerous other vessels are also commemorated here.\u201d\u00a0\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 14, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/142019\/HOLLYBROOK%20MEMORIAL,%20SOUTHAMPTON\">http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-a-cemetery\/cemetery\/142019\/HOLLYBROOK%20MEMORIAL,%20SOUTHAMPTON<\/a><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, February 14, 1915 On Board H.M. Transport \u201cAustralind,\u201d (Captain Sidney Angell) The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cWeather moderated.\u00a0 Held Orderly Room on deck.\u201d [1] THIS DAY<\/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-10683","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\/10683","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=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}