Tuesday, March 2, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n
In billets, <\/b>Armenti\u00e8res<\/b><\/a> \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cLeft Armentieres at 4 p.m. to march to Bac St. Maur where battalion was billeted for the night.\u201d<\/i> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[1]<\/a><\/p>\n THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cCanadian Associated Cables), London, Feb 28.\u00a0 On Monday week last we cabled that a certain brigade of the Canadian force had been moved towards the trenches on the previous Saturday (fortnight yesterday), and that Capt. Harry Coghill of Stratford, Ont., was in hospital owing to exposure.<\/p>\n Since then the Canadians have been doing duty for forty-eight hours in the trenches, and relieved by others of the contingent.<\/p>\n At the present time the only reliable news here is that one wounded man has been admitted into the hospital in France, and another man was returned to England, but it is not known yet whether he is sick or wounded.<\/p>\n The greater part of the Canadian forces were a long time in France before they came within hearing of hostilities.\u00a0 The artillery, mechanical transport, divisional supply column, ammunition park, and Army Service Corps stayed at the base, along with the field ambulance and army medical units, during this time.<\/p>\n A Great Reception:\u00a0The waiting men were delighted with the reception accorded them by the poor people of the district, with whose possessions war had played sad havoc. Presents of fruit and wine were made to them.\u00a0 Canadians, in all cases, insisted on paying for these gifts, but the peasants were most unwilling to receive any acknowledgement, although one of the prettiest incidents was the manner in which little children surrounded Canadian soldiers, pleading \u201cSouvenir, souvenir.\u201d\u00a0 In response many of those appealed to plucked off their maple leaf badges and handed them to importunate ones.<\/p>\n Many of the men are quartered in barns, and others in farm buildings, all very comfortable.\u00a0 Food is ample since their arrival in France, although rations were rough enough during the time of crossing.\u00a0 It was in the early part of this week that those men who have already been under fire arrived on the scene of hostilities.\u00a0 Canada\u2019s Army Service Corps is busy just now taking sandbags and other defensive materials from the bases up to the firing zone.\u00a0 This work is as hazardous as any undertaken\u00a0 by men actually in the trenches, as German artillery searches particularly for transport columns, and even when travelling is done at night searchlights of the enemy are most effective.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 [i]<\/a><\/p>\n
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