{"id":10734,"date":"2015-02-27T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2015-02-27T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T11:00:32","slug":"rmrs-first-casualty-private-eaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmrs-first-casualty-private-eaton\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR&#039;s First Casualty: Private Eaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saturday, February 27, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In billets,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armenti%C3%A8res\">Armenti\u00e8res<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: <em>\u201cPlatoons in trenches again changed over.\u00a0 Had first man wounded.\u00a0 O.C., 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in Command, and Adjutant proceeded with Brigadier and Staff to H.Q. of Battns. near Fleurbaix whom the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Bde. was shortly to relieve, to acquire information about line.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10643\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/27-Feb-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10643 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/27-Feb-15-300x203.png\" alt=\"27 Feb 15\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Map of Fleurbaix Sector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0The Bn. history tells us this first casualty of the Battalion in the field was \u201cPrivate R.C. Eaton of No. 1 Coy. who was wounded.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0No. 22995 Pte. Richard Carter Eaton, a native of Montreal, had enlisted with the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Bn. at Valcartier on Sept 23, 1914, and then served briefly with the 12<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion before being transferred to the 14<sup>th <\/sup>Bn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPte. Richard Carter Eaton (formerly 12th Battalion), admitted to No.13 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne; gun-shot wound, face; Next-of-kin, Mrs.Isabella Maria Eaton (mother), 32 Seymour Avenue, Montreal.\u201d <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was later deemed medically unfit on Nov 4<sup>th<\/sup> 1915 as a result of his wounds.<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Feb 27, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089695.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089695.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca\/islandora\/object\/macrepo%3A3940\/-\/collection\">http:\/\/digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca\/islandora\/object\/macrepo%3A3940\/-\/collection<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0R.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. 29.<\/pre>\n<pre>[4]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, Tuesday, March 16, 1915, pg. 2, col. 2.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, February 27, 1915 In billets,\u00a0Armenti\u00e8res\u00a0\u00a0 The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cPlatoons in trenches again changed over.\u00a0 Had first man wounded.\u00a0 O.C., 2nd in Command, and Adjutant<\/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-10734","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\/10734","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=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}