Saturday, March 6, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n
In trenches Rue Petillon<\/strong><\/p>\n The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cQuiet day except for usual shelling at noon.\u00a0 Considerable work done on front line and breastwork around Battn. H.Q.\u00a0 Relieved at night by 15th Battn. and marched back to Brigade Reserve billets on Rue du Quesne. Relief took over three hours to complete, much too long.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>[1]<\/a><\/p>\n THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0There continued to be much lingering controversy and criticism of the equipment procured and supplied to the Canadian Contingent, and the methods by which the material was purchased.\u00a0\u00a0 About this time (March 4, 1915), Mr. L. J. Gauthier, Member of Parliament for the riding of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, posed no fewer that fourteen questions in the House of Commons, with a view to finding out why the Canadian soldiers were not equipped with a waterproof coat.<\/p>\n \u201cGeneral Hughes replied that no waterproof cloak or cape was given the soldiers, but they were equipped with a greatcoat which was considered to be more serviceable.\u00a0 The British soldiers are not supplied with waterproof coats, and if commissioned officers have them they are purchased at the officer\u2019s own expense.\u00a0 An offer to supply a waterproof cloak at cost was made before the contingent left, but the offer was rejected.\u00a0 The department does not admit that any error was made in this regard.\u00a0 No complaints have been received from any members of the first or second contingent.\u00a0 Some civilians did write to the department, but their recommendations were not approved.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 [2]<\/a><\/p>\n Saturday, March 6, 1915 In trenches Rue Petillon The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cQuiet day except for usual shelling at noon.\u00a0 Considerable work done on front line<\/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-10759","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\/10759","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=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, March 6, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cNo Muster Roll Yet, Answers Gen. Hughes,\u201d Special Despatch to The Globe, The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Friday, March 5, 1915, pg. 11.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cNo Muster Roll Yet, Answers Gen. Hughes,\u201d Special Despatch to The Globe, The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Friday, March 5, 1915, pg. 11.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, March 6, 1915 In trenches Rue Petillon The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cQuiet day except for usual shelling at noon.\u00a0 Considerable work done on front line<\/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-10759","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\/10759","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=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg\"){kind=link}