Wednesday, March 3, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n
In billets, Bac St. Maur<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cSenior officers Canadians assembled at Corps where they were briefly addressed by the G.O.C. Corps whose chief remark was \u00a0\u2018Gentlemen you are about to face a cunning, cruel, and unscrupulous enemy.\u00a0 If you make a mistake, you will not get the chance to make a second one.\u2019\u00a0 Battn. afterwards addressed by Lt.-Gen. Alderson, commanding the Canadian Divn.\u00a0 Just before dusk battalion left billets to proceed to the front line near the Rue Petillon (Fleurbaix Sector) opposite Fromelles where it took over the sub-sector held by a squadron of the Northumberland Hussars (Yeomanry), and the 1st<\/sup> Battn. Grenadier Guards, who were commanded by Lt.-Col. Fisher-Rowe, 2nd<\/sup> in command Major Trotter.\u00a0 Relief completed in less than two hours.\u00a0 Guards handed over 3 cows for use of Bn. H.Q.\u201d<\/i> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[1]<\/a><\/p>\n THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe Guards, being veteran soldiers, had made themselves as comfortable as circumstances permitted, among their assets being three cows.\u00a0 These they presented to Lieut.-Col. Meighen and the officers of 14th<\/sup> Battalion H.Q.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 [2]<\/a><\/p>\n It was normal procedure for a unit leaving the trenches to turn over to the relieving unit the trench equipment, and other necessary supplies, but this was undoubtedly the first time, and probably the last, \u00a0that the 14th<\/sup> Bn. took over some \u201ccows.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFrom this date, March 3, 1915, the<\/strong> First Canadian Division was now responsible for a large section of front near Fleurbaix, France, as part of the 4th British Army Corps.\u201d\u00a0 [3]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday, March 3, 1915 In billets, Bac St. Maur\u00a0\u00a0 The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cSenior officers Canadians assembled at Corps where they were briefly addressed by the<\/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-10745","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\/10745","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=10745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[1]\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, March 3, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, The Royal Montreal Regiment 14th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 30.<\/pre>\n
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![http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n[2]\u00a0\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, The Royal Montreal Regiment 14th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 30.<\/pre>\n[3]\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/legionmagazine.com\/en\/2011\/03\/on-this-date-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 march\/<\/a><\/pre>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, March 3, 1915 In billets, Bac St. Maur\u00a0\u00a0 The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cSenior officers Canadians assembled at Corps where they were briefly addressed by the<\/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-10745","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\/10745","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=10745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg\"){kind=link}